NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A Stormont minister believed two care homes run by nuns in Londonderry saved the state money, Northern Ireland’s Historical Abuse Inquiry has heard.
The inquiry has been examining 1960s letters between state bodies and the Sisters of Nazareth, who ran the homes at Bishop Street and Termonbacca.
It was shown a 1964 memo by Home Affairs Minister Bill Craig.
He said children would otherwise “have to be accommodated at much greater expense by welfare authorities”.
St Joseph’s Home, Termonbacca, and Nazareth House children’s home in Bishop Street in Derry are the first two of 13 state, church and voluntary institutions being examined by the inquiry during the period from 1922 to 1995.
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