Some 34,000 people who were in the institutions are estimated to be eligible to qualify for redress. 

The event, at Bessborough Centre in Blackrock, will start at 2pm on Sunday, and will commemorate the lives of the women and children that were lost during their time at the home.

It comes amid criticism over the eligibility criteria for those in line for compensation

Last October, the Government agreed to make an order to establish such an office to oversee the excavation, recovery, analysis, identification — if possible — and reinterment of children’s remains at the site of the former institution in Tuam, Co Galway, under the Institutional Burials Act 2022.

Under the current scheme, survivors of the mother and baby institutions will be eligible for payments of up to €65,000.

SPECIAL protections should be introduced for mother-and-baby homes, such as Bessborough, Roderic O’Gorman, the children’s, equality, disability, integration, and youth minister told reporters in Cork on Monday.

A CORK TD has requested that of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation come before the Oireachtas committee and called for the Government to reject its report.

PLANNING permission for a housing development on the lands of Bessborough has been refused by An Bord Pleanála.

The Gardaí have issued a public appeal regarding criminal activity that may have occurred at a Mother and Baby Home in relation to a pregnancy and/or abuse.

A SURVIVOR of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home has told an Oireachtas committee this morning that proposed legislation allowing excavations and re-interment of remains at former mother-and-baby home institutions should be scrapped.

A protest has been held outside the Mother and Baby Homes Commission office to mark the end of its term.

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman has said an extension to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission would serve "no practical purpose" now that audio recordings of survivors' testimony have been recovered.

A Government minister has sought legal advice from the Attorney General about the deletion of audio witness testimony at the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.

GREEN Party Cork City councillors have suggested that it may be appropriate to rename Bishop Lucey Park and certain other place names in the city in light of the publication of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes final report.

THE religious order that ran the Bessborough Mother and Baby home has said it is a “matter of great sorrow” that babies died under its care.

The Taoiseach has issued an apology on behalf of the Government to the survivors of homes for unmarried mothers for the emotional abuse and social stigma they suffered.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross, Fintan Gavin has said he welcomes the publication of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes final report, which he says "describes a very sad chapter in our Irish history".

Latest: Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman said it was important an apology to the survivors of the mother and baby homes is made today.

CATHERINE COFFEY O'BRIEN A MOTHER and baby home survivor said that today’s State apology alone won’t bring closure to mothers still haunted by their experiences decades later.

Cork TDs have called on the State and the Church to take responsibility for the "harrowing catalogue" of abuse found within the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.

The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes published its report on Tuesday. It investigated decades of harm caused to women and children at the hands of religious-run mother and baby homes in Ireland.

An extensive report into decades of abuse of women and children at the hands of religious-run mother and baby homes in Ireland is to be published today.

A WOMAN whose grandmother was sent to a Magdalene laundry and whose mother was raised in an industrial school is hoping that the report into Mother and Baby Homes will be transparent for survivors.

A protest to put pressure on the government to ensure survivors have access to Mother and Baby Home archives is taking place in Cork city today.

Additional resources will be put in place to speed up the publication of the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation which is due to be completed this week.

A FORMER resident of the Bessborough mother-and-baby home has ed forces with other survivors to highlight what she describes as a "breach of human rights" in relation to the Retention of Records Bill.