IRELAND
Irish Times
Marie O’Halloran
Taoiseach Enda Kenny described Ireland of the era of mother and baby homes as a “social and cultural sepulchre” or tomb.
In an angry response to the discovery of the remains of children in Tuam, Mr Kenny described it as a “chamber of horrors”. He said “we better deal with this now” because if they did not another taoiseach in 20 years would be saying, “if we only knew then, if only we had done then. But his or her then is our now. And now we do know and now we have to do now, all of us in this House together.”
The Taoiseach said “we need some little time to reflect on the issue.”
He was responding to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin who said “there must be a resolve by Government and Oireachtas to once and for all address the gaps in services for children in this country by a resolve to comprehensively invest in these services”.
The Fianna Fáil leader highlighted the lack of services including the current homelessness of 2,500 children.
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