IRELAND
Irish Independent
Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has said it will be a number of weeks before her department has finished looking at what other institutions and that she hopes men come forward to testify in any investigations.
She said the shocking revelations have forced Ireland to confront a dark period of our past.
“As the poet laureate Anne Enright says ‘the dead do not lie’ and we are, all of the people in Ireland, throughout the country and internationally as well, trying to come to terms with what does this actually mean for our country,” she said.
“It’s an uncovering and a challenge for us to face, maybe in a new way, a really dark period in our history,” she said.
Ms Zappone’s department is currently undertaking a scoping exercise to extend the terms of reference of the commission to look at other settings where pregnant women and their children were sent.
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