IRELAND
Irish Independent
Ralph Riegel and Emma Jane Hade
A GOVERNMENT and church-backed independent commission of inquiry into the mother and baby homes scandal won’t be launched until it is clear it will not interfere with garda investigations.
Privately, senior cabinet ministers acknowledged such an investigation would be set up within months though there is increasing concern over the scale of its inquiry remit.
Mother and baby homes operated across Ireland for 40 years but were also intrinsically linked to industrial schools and orphanages.
The facilities are also at the centre of secret vaccine trial and clandestine foreign adoption controversies.
The Coalition is open to the inquiry being led by domestic or overseas judicial official once its precise remit is agreed.
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