IRELAND
Newstalk
Kerry Graye
08:05 Thursday 5 June 2014
The government has promised a comprehensive investigation into the deaths of children at Mother and Baby homes nationwide.
Brendan Howlin told the Dáil several departments are involved in a ‘scoping exercise’ to determine the extent of mass graves near homes.
The issue was raised by the opposition during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil this lunchtime, after news that the remains of nearly 800 babies and children were found in a disused septic tank beside a former home in Tuam, Co. Galway.
Independent TD Catherine Murphy demanded to know why the site of the mass grave at a septic tank in Tuam, Galway had not been declared a crime scene:
Earlier, an adoption rights campaigner compared the process of digging out information on deaths at Mother & Baby homes to ‘trying to penetrate the iron curtain’.
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