Calls For Redress For Westbank Orphanage Survivors In Greystones

The orphanage's survivors have criticised their exclusion from the Mother and Baby Home Redress Scheme up to this point.

The orphanage's survivors have criticised their exclusion from the Mother and Baby Home Redress Scheme up to this point. 

Westbank survivors were excluded from the initial Mother and Baby Home Redress Scheme; however, since then, in 2016, the Second Interim Report of the Mother and Baby Home Commission Inquiry, Section 5.14 of the report, stated that there is an argument that it (Westbank) should have been included in the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme.

Wicklow TD Jennifer has said she will bring forward an amendment to the legislation in the weeks ahead seeking to address this gap in the redress scheme.