Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in one or more of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions, that were identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal facilities to single mothers and their children. The institutions covered by the Payment Scheme are set out in Schedule 1 of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act, which was signed into law on 11th July 2023.

Nazareth House, Sligo, was identified as a “residential children’s home” in Chapter 2 of the Social History section of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes - . In this chapter the Commission considered the different types of institutions that existed and whether or not they could be classified as Mother and Baby Homes. Nazareth House was not investigated by the Commission of Investigation because it was not an institution that provided ante and post-natal facilities. For this reason it is not included in this Payment Scheme.