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This afternoon.

A petition has been launched by the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance calling for the immediate exhumation of the Tuam burial site and a full investigation into the deaths of the children.

They write:

In 2020, the Irish Government introduced a ‘Burials Bill’ to facilitate the Exhumation of the Tuam and other similar sites across Ireland. The Bill has been severely criticised by Campaigners for its shortcomings such as, failing to utilise existing legislation to achieve the same goals.

One area of deep concern relates to the dis-application of the role of the Coroner and thereby the prospect of a full investigation into the deaths of the Children.

In the absence of any urgency from the Irish Government, the Families of the Lost Children, and surviving Family Members, who have yet to receive confirmation that a family member is interred within these grounds, anxiously wait to hear when they will be reunited with their kin.

Requests include:

That the Irish Government rethinks its proposed Burials Bill and listen to the voices of the families of the disappeared Children and Mothers;

That the Irish Government presents an immediate and clear timetable when the Exhumations for the Tuam Mother and Baby Home site will commence;

That timetable should also set out when Exhumations will begin at other sites

That all bodies so found are fully accounted for and where possible, their causes of death are established;

That the bodies found have their DNA extracted and that the Irish Government creates an International Public Information Campaign to find and identify surviving relatives;

That the full outcome of the Exhumations are set out in a Public record, including the methodology and actions taken by the Coroner and the An Garda Síochána, to hold those either individually or corporately responsible to account.

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