'Unfair' to Make Nuns Contribute to the Mother and Baby Home Redress Scheme - 18/08/2025

A religious order has said being asked to contribute to the State's mother and baby home redress scheme is “akin to asking a frontline worker in 50 years’ time to be held accountable for the failures of the current HSE”, new records show.Representatives for the Sisters of Mercy made the comments during a meeting with former children’s minister Roderic O’Gorman on December 13, 2021, where it was claimed it would be "unfair" to make the nuns pay, as they were "just workers".Following publication of the Commission of Investigation report into mother and baby homes, eight religious-run orders were asked by the Department of Children to contribute to the €800m redress scheme that was rolled out last year for survivors. Alison O’Reilly from The Irish Examiner joined us on The Agenda this morning to tell us more about this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.