IRELAND
Journal
Updated at 4.30pm
TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY has said the Government will engage in a full consultation process with opposition parties and independent politicians as it works to establish a full Commission of Investigation into mother-and-baby homes run by religious orders.
It follows confirmation from the Children’s Minister this afternoon that a wide-ranging probe will go ahead “with full statutory powers to examine all matters pertaining to mother-and-baby homes throughout the state”.
Speaking in the Dáil, Enda Kenny said the investigation was being launched with a sense of sadness and a “sense of duty”.
He said the Commission would examine “a period when women and particularly young women were silent and silenced”.
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