Taoiseach Enda Kenny used strong and emotive words in the Dáil today when discussing the Tuam mother and baby home revelations.
Today, Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone agreed to carry out a “small scoping exercise” to assess if it is possible to expand the existing terms of reference to include other homes into the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes.
Speaking in response to a question from Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin in the Dáil today, Kenny said, “we gave them up because of our perverse, in fact, morbid relationship with what is called respectability”.
The Taoiseach was addressing the Dáil following last week’s revelations that substantial amounts of human remains were discovered on the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway.
Since the discovery, a number of survivors have called for the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes to be expanded.
In consultation with the commission, Zappone is due to announce details of the scoping exercise after the St Patrick’s Day weekend. jrnl.ie/3275702
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9 мар 2017