IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has confirmed she will publish the interim report into mother-and-baby homes by the end of this month, writes Elaine Loughlin.
It comes after numerous calls in the Dáil to make public the Commission’s second interim report, which has been with the Minister since September.
During Dáil statements this morning on the scandal of the Tuam mother-and-baby home, Katherine Zappone said she acknowledged the calls made since Friday for an expansion of the terms of reference to cover all institutions, agencies and individuals that were involved with unmarried women and their children.
She confirmed she would announcing the detail of a scoping exercise to see if all institutions could be included in the inquiry in the coming weeks.
“What happened in Tuam is part of a larger picture,” she told the Dáil.
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