Debate contribution: Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill: Further Consideration Stage
Debate contribution by Mrs Linda Dillon on .
- MLA
- Mrs Linda Dillon
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 22 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Executive Committee Business
- Heading
- Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill: Further Consideration Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5638644
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I thank the Minister for taking an intervention. A Member talked about our having to stick to facts and removing emotion from the debate. I absolutely agree that we need the Bill to be good legislation that will stand up and deliver for people, but we absolutely should not remove emotion from the debate. The lack of empathy, emotion and care for women and their children is exactly what landed us here. If there had been more care, emotion and empathy, those women and their children would not have had to fight for the past however many years. I cannot even say how many years: some people have fought for 10 years; others for 20 or 30 years. They should never have been in that position. That is exactly what we need to have today and every day that we work on the legislation: empathy, emotion, understanding and care for the women and the adopted children.
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