Cabinet to discuss reopening of State redress scheme for survivors of Mother and Baby homes

MINISTERS will next week discuss the prospect of reopening the State’s redress scheme for survivors of the Mother and Baby Homes.

Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone will bring an expert commission report to Cabinet which recommends the reopening of a 2002 scheme that previously paid out compensation for institutional abuse. The scheme, which has to date cost almost €1.5bn, closed to new applicants in September 2011.

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