IRELAND
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CHILDREN’S MINISTER CHARLIE Flanagan has confirmed that 25,000 files have been handed over from the Sacred Heart Adoption Society to the Cork offices of the Child and Family Agency ‘TUSLA’.
The Sacred Heart Sisters operated three of the country’s largest mother-and-baby homes:
Bessborough in Cork, Castlepollard in Westmeath and Sean Ross Abbey in Tipperary.
Speaking in the Dáil, Flanagan said the figure indicated the scale and breadth of the task facing the Commission of Investigation being set up to examine the country’s mother-and-baby institutions.
He made the comments as his Department confirmed that it had received over 100 submissions from individuals and groups as part of the planned investigation.
Senior officials from eight Government departments briefed Cabinet today on the interim findings of the cross-departmental review being carried out in advance of the formal start of the Commission of Investigation.
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