IRELAND
Irish Times
Michael O’Regan, Eoghan MacConnell
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he sees no reason why an interim report from the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes to the Government should not be published.
Mr Kenny said he had not read the report which had been submitted to Minister for Children Katherine Zappone some time ago.
That report was furnished months before a statement from the commission last Friday in which it said it was “shocked” by the discovery of human remains of a significant number of babies and infants up to three years of age on the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. These were found during a test excavation carried out between last November and February.
Heated exchanges
The Taoiseach was responding in the Dáil to Independent TD Catherine Connolly amid heated exchanges during which she claimed he was insulting the women of Ireland.
“I am as committed as anybody else to seeing that we deal with this once and for all,” Mr Kenny responded.
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