The scheme, which Minister for Children Roderick O’Gorman has advised is the largest in the history of the State, will be applicable to 34,000 former residents of Irish mother and baby homes with a total value of €800 million. Providing financial payments and a form of enhanced medical card to “defined groups in acknowledgment of suffering experienced while resident” in a mother and baby institution or county institution.
Redress payments will be made on a scale depending on time spent in the Homes and the work they participated in while resident in the Homes. Mothers who resided in a Mother and Baby Home for less than three months would be eligible for a payment of €5,000; while at the other end of the scale, mothers who spent more than 10 years in a Mother and Baby Home would be entitled to a payment of €65,000.
Survivors living overseas will qualify for redress on the same terms as current Irish residents, with a choice of receiving either an enhanced medical card or a once-off payment in lieu.
Who is eligible:
All mothers who spent time in a Mother and Baby Institution will be eligible for a payment, which will increase based on their length of stay.
All children who spent six months or more in an institution will also be eligible for payment based on their length of stay, as long as they did not receive redress for that institution under the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (RIRS).
There is also an additional, work-related payment for women who undertook what might be termed commercial work.
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