Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said that the Church and the government stood together for the work of Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland and apologized for the tragic incident.
Varadkar also apologized for the significant failures of the church, the government and the community in the matter of mother and baby homes.
After the government apologized for the tragedy at Mother and Baby Homes, the survivors alleged that there was an attempt to cover up the incidents.
Following Prime Minister Michel Martin’s statement, Varadkar said it was time to amend the law on such matters.
The Prime Minister’s and Deputy Prime Minister’s apology came after reports emerged that more than 9,000 babies had died in mother and baby homes.
The Catholic Church has also apologized for the atrocities that took place in Mother and Baby Homes.
The report clearly states that children of unwed mothers were separated and then used by nuns and priests for years as slaves.
At the same time, Varadkar said it was shocking that 9000 children had died in mother and baby homes. He blamed the government and the church for working together with full knowledge of the community.
He said the stolen generation was the children who died there and that the commission report on mother and baby homes was a disgrace to Irish society.
At the same time, Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald said the Prime Minister’s apology was a departure from reality.
She said the church and the government were trying to shift responsibility for the tragedy at Mother and Baby Home, which “shocked the survivors.”
McDonald’s also accused the government and the government of trying to “distort history” to avoid responsibility for the heinous crimes of the past.
Despite the denials, the government and the church are responsible for human rights abuses in mother and baby homes. In the incident, they made it clear that the propaganda that the entire Irish community was responsible for the incident was baseless and that the government’s approach was to insult the victims and survivors.