Bethany Home Survivors Group Praise Taoiseach's Decision To Sample Other Adoption Agencies
The Bethany Home Survivors Group is describing the Taoiseach's decision to carry out a sampling exercise of other adoption agencies as a step in the right direction.
The group says those who've been affected by the adoption scandal at St. Patrick's Guild in Cork should be part of a redress scheme.
126 people had their adoptive parents registered as their birth parents, and may not know they're adopted at all.
Bethany Home Survivors Group Chairperson Derek Leinster says it's good that Leo Varadkar's going to do something:
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