File photo: Majella Connolly, an adoptee from St Patrick's Mother and Baby Home, joins protesters in Dublin in October 2020. Image: James Ward/PA Archive/PA Images File photo: Majella Connolly, an adoptee from St Patrick's Mother and Baby Home, joins protesters in Dublin in October 2020.
The link to the Zoom event was being readily passed around, despite including the invitation containing a disclaimer not to do so:Survivors saw today as their only opportunity to hear directly from one of the commissioners and, possibly, ask her questions. They were not going to let this slide. In the end, about 120 people tuned in.
She said the Commission was limited in what it could do due to the Terms of Reference it had to operate under. She later acknowledged that the Commission essentially discounted the evidence given by hundreds of survivors to the Confidential Committee. Daly today said that the Commission had to be “ultra careful” in terms of what it published due to the “looming” threat of legal challenges.
Excavations carried out between November 2016 and February 2017 found a significant quantity of human remains, aged from 35 foetal weeks to two to three years, interred in a vault on the site. “I don’t think the two should have been put into the one commission, one inquiry, because they are very, very different exercises.”
There is still some confusion as to the fact both committees were linked but separate, she acknowledged. Indeed, some survivors have since said they gave evidence to the Confidential Committee in the belief that it would be used by the Commission to help inform their conclusions. Human rights lawyer Mairead Enright, who was present on the call, typed: “The vast majority of affected people testified to the Confidential Committee.
Today’s event was not necessarily the correct forum at which to put certain questions to Daly. And for her to answer. Perhaps, it really highlighted how an Oireachtas committee would be much better suited to such important matters. A number of people on the call asked for the woman to be unmuted so she could address Daly directly. One of the organisers said the unmute function was not available.
Human rights lawyer Maeve O’Rourke, co-director of the Clann Project, was also in attendance. After the event, she said: Professor Daly “needs to come before the Oireachtas and speak as openly there as she did today in Oxford”.
orlaryan Is she the Irish Aunt Lydia?
orlaryan WTF is ''ultra' legal'? I think 'legal' would have cut it?
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