{"id":1887,"date":"2022-09-14T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/continued-engagement-with-tuam-campaigners-is-essential\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:25:06","slug":"continued-engagement-with-tuam-campaigners-is-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/continued-engagement-with-tuam-campaigners-is-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued engagement with Tuam campaigners is essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A rotten partnership between the Irish State and Roman Catholic Church perpetuated abuses and actively opposed any form of accountability and justice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Social Democrats TD Holly Cairns has called on the Government to fully engage with survivors and campaigners ahead of the passing of legislation covering the excavation of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home site.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on a D\u00e1il motion to approve the Institutional Burial Acts 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam), Deputy Cairns said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe excavation of the Tuam site, the identification of victims and the dignified burial of the remains will only happen because of the work of Catherine Corless, survivors\u2019 groups, campaigners and relatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttempts to intervene at Tuam and other locations have been resisted by successive governments for decades. A rotten partnership between the Irish State and the Roman Catholic Church perpetuated abuses and actively opposed any form of accountability and justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance stressed the need for continued engagement and the requirement to provide a pathway for the coroner to hold an inquest to establish cause of death, in compliance with international law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a human rights perspective, it is completely unacceptable that coroners have not been directed by this or previous governments to investigate known mass graves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Act only applies in cases of inappropriate burial, but not in relation to unnatural or unexplained death in these institutions. Despite pleas from survivors and human rights experts \u2013 and amendments from myself \u2013 the Minister has created a law that would limit the number and scale of interventions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe uncovering of the truth \u2013 no matter how uncomfortable \u2013 must happen. The long, shameful history of abuse, forced incarceration, family separation, illegal adoptions and unnatural deaths needs to be fully investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcademics and activists have charted the scale of unnatural deaths in mother and baby homes, county homes, industrial schools, psychiatric hospitals and other institutions. Where is the justice for these victims and their relatives?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the pre-legislative stage of this Act, I came to the conclusion it was designed solely to intervene in Tuam. While this is essential, there are many other sites across the country that also require methodical and respectful excavation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is obviously an emotional one for the survivors of Tuam and the many families who know, or hope, that their loved ones are buried there. But it is also a grim reminder that the relatives of those buried in other sites will never get justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Act is intentionally filled with barrier after barrier to prevent it being applied to any other location. We need a survivor-led transitional justice process and what is being proposed today falls short of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>September 14, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rotten partnership between the Irish State and Roman Catholic Church perpetuated abuses and actively opposed any form of accountability and justice Social Democrats TD Holly Cairns has called on the Government to fully engage with survivors and campaigners ahead of the passing of legislation covering the excavation of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,7,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holly-cairns","category-press-release","category-tds"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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