Mother and baby homes report
Deputy Buckley asked whether the final commission recommendations on mother and baby homes would be published and shared with survivors. The Taoiseach said the Minister had brought legislation on records retention to Cabinet and was engaging with survivors and families.
On Monday, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, brought the final commission of inquiry into the mother and baby homes report to the Cabinet. In recent days, I have been on inundated with calls. I ask, on behalf of the survivors and those who have passed, whether the recommendations of this report will be published. If it will not go into the public domain, are the survivors who took part in this inquiry entitled to have sight of those recommendations?
Comment on this
The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, brought legislation to the Cabinet last week regarding the retention of records pertaining to mother and child homes. I do not believe he brought a report, specifically, to last week's Cabinet meeting. That Bill will be published and, to be fair, the Minister has engaged with all involved and is anxious to work to help survivors and families of all those involved as well.