IRELAND
RTE News
The Government has published its terms of reference for a Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matter.
The three-person commission chaired by judge Yvonne Murphy will be given three years to complete its work.
The commission will examine the period between 1922 and 1998 at 14 named institutions and a number of county homes.
A confidential committee will talk to those who lived and worked in there.
The circumstances in which women entered and left these homes, the living conditions and care arrangements in the institutions, the mortality rate of the women and children who lived there and the post mortem practices will all be examined.
It will also look at how children whose mothers were not in these homes ended up being there.
It will investigate the welfare considerations and input of the mothers in placing children from these homes elsewhere in Ireland and abroad.
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