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THE CHILD AND family agency Túsla has been given records for three mother-and-baby homes, it emerged this evening.
The chief executive of Tusla, Gordon Jeyes, told RTÉ News at One that the agency has had nine registers dating from between 1921 – 1961 transferred to it, as well as quarterly returns that date back to 1919.
The information is from homes in Tuam, St Patrick’s on the Navan Road in Dublin, and Bessborough in Cork.
Investigation
He said that there is “no difficulty” in making the records available to the investigation into the homes.
The cross-departmental investigation is expected to be established by the new Minister for Children, Charlie Flanagan.
The private data is to be digitised by Tusla, said Jeyes.
Tusla said that these files “contain sensitive, personal information and are protected under legislation”. However, anyone affected may request to access their own personal information.
Jeyes said:
The Child and Family Agency is currently the custodian of extremely personal data belonging to those who formerly resided in Mother and Baby Homes. Our key priority is to ensure that these confidential records are available, in the first instance, to the individuals whose personal information is contained within. Our staff will willingly assist with and contribute to any State investigations that may arise.
The information contained in the files includes:
Some of these records have already been digitally archived and plans to archive the remaining files are underway, with a view to assisting anyone wishing to trace their own past.
Tusla operates an adoption tracing service in relation to institutions for which the Agency holds record. These institutions are listed on the Tusla website.
Trials
It emerged today that more than 298 children from 10 mother-and-baby homes were subject to experimental vaccine trials between 1960 and 1976.
Yesterday, the Junior Minister for Health Kathleen Lynch told The Sunday Independent that the vaccine trials carried out in mother and baby homes should form part of any forthcoming government inquiry.
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I hope it can go ahead.
@Alan Byrne: No reason now for it not to go ahead.
Let 40,000 people at a gaa match, Let 70,000 people at a music festival no problem. But for the love of God don’t let a partner into the labour ward to support a pregnant woman or visit their new born child they’ll infect the country. Give me a break. Priorities people please
@Dan Linehan: He said that something like electric picnic could go ahead with vaccinated people only. Vaccination rates among pregnant women is quite low. Also, hospitals obviously contain a lot of very vulnerable people. So there is consistency in relation to vaccination rates and vulnerability.
@Thomas O’ Donnell: then separate vaccinated women from non vaccinated women its pretty simple.
@Dan Linehan: sounds like some one wasn’t allowed into a Labour ward. Talk about off topic.
@Thomas O’ Donnell: he didn’t even say that. He said that he’d prefer if the people in croke park were vaccinated, given the size of the crowd. EP losing the run of themselves here, again.
@Dan Linehan: Apples and oranges.
@Dan Linehan: unfortunately partners cannot be let in due to the risk of infecting vulnerable new born babies with a killer virus. Have some cop on.
@Dan Linehan: an unvaccinated partner? If so then NO
There’s too much logic being expected here for this to work out.
Super Spreader Event.
@John Lynch: Correct, exactly what the hurling final was but wouldn’t have been had it been confined to the fully vaccinated only.
Can Garth Brooks headline Fri sat and sun too ?
@CAMILA REMONA: Garth doesn’t have enough friends in high places i’m afraid…
Can someone ask Tony
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/23/almost-5000-covid-cases-linked-to-cornish-music-and-surf-festival-boardmasters
5K cases linked to this one. Latitude one of Mr. Benns 500% increase locally., Lolpolooza all local counties around area sent public health that if you were at to get tested immediately. This was vaccine certs, lateral flow tests etc. The fact is it will not nationally cause an explosion but locally people will pay a price, it maybe a vulnerable loved one’s life. If it was my area and my kids I’d march on the local council. Their is no genuine pinimg here for local artists, its let me print money. Get the guitars back into pubs and small venues the lifeblood of an artists life back open. Liam Gallagher will survive, the local wedding band might not.
@Albert Brennerman: EP is proposed to be open to vaccinated people only. The couple or examples you were able to find (out of hundreds) in Europe were not. If you knew anything about EP (which you clearly don’t) you’d know that there are thousands of jobs and millions of euro to the economy at risk.
If EP went ahead it would be soooooooo amaaaaaaaaaaaaazing.
GAA is more PC!!
Tough one for Micheal!!!!
@Chris Gaffney: he made his bed by attending the hurling final. He has to deal with the consequences.
@Chris Gaffney: Houlihan only saving Martin and Coveneys blushes over attendance at final.These scammers and chancers should not be RULING us.Time for change people.
Release the Beast,
The big Cheese Dr Tony has stated its ok for people with vaccines to party outdoors!
Tony Holohan will not allow it because he knows the rate of infection will rise with so many people, being asymptomatic in one place, and they will be infecting each other making for incidences of covid, he knows this but still persists on the vaccines, & he and others like him will call the lady gp from northern Ireland a charlatan for revealing the truth.
There are interests and interests in the world of arts, entertainment and sport.
Just right..
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