A Cork TD has slammed the government's proposed Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme - and warned that survivors will end up taking the state to court.
If passed in its current form, the scheme would exclude children who spent fewer than six months in Mother and Baby Homes.
Around 34,000 people are believed still to be eligible for redress under the scheme, at an estimated cost of 800 million euro.
24,000 survivors would be excluded in the scheme's current form.
The Bill had been expected to pass through the Dáil but the vote was put back until next week.
Speaking in the Dáil, Cork South West TD Holly Cairns said the current bill goes against the wishes of survivors:
"You carried out the Oak Report. The findings of that report said the highest thing, that survivors reported back that they wanted the redress to based on, was separation of Mother and Child - forced family separation. That was the main finding of your report. You ignored that and went much further down the list of things in terms of feedback, and went with time spent in institution. I don't quite realise how much people are against this. I agree with Deputy Sherlock, we won't see the end of this. There will be cases taken in court if you don't change your tack".
