Debate contribution: Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill: Consideration Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Stewart Dickson on .
- MLA
- Mr Stewart Dickson
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 19 May 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Executive Committee Business
- Heading
- Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill: Consideration Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5549790
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I struggle to understand what the Minister is saying. If someone was born into an institution and then left it, probably having no knowledge of having been in that institution — certainly not at the time of their birth — and, a number of years later, ended up in the same institution or a different one, that is a second standard situation; it is not an unstandardised situation. I fail to understand why the legislation cannot take account of two incidents in a small number of people's lives.
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