Brid makes the point that survivors of of church-run mother and baby homes have yet to be compensated for the horrors they experienced and the blight on their lives, and that no criminal prosecution has begun  of any of those responsible. She further agues that the most fitting tribute to the memory of the women and babies who suffered at the hands of the church, would the separation of Church and State forthwith.

IT’S NOT WHAT WE SAY – IT’S WHAT WE DO THAT COUNTS.

There were many fine speeches in the Dáil this evening in response to the SF motion on mother and babies homes. But talk is cheap – we need to DO something. Brid proposed an amendment that we SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE. That would mean taking the wealth off Bon Secours – taking our hospitals into State control; getting rid of the religeous off the boards of management of our schools; and recind the deal done by former FF Minister Woods with the religious, which hugely favoured them, over clerical child sex abuse.