Latest: Children's Minister Katherine Zappone tonight updated the Dáil on the progress of the Commission of Investigation, saying the final report was now due in February next year.

Further geophysical surveys will begin this month at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam in County Galway.

Children's Minister Barry Andrews said today that he is hopeful of having a 'Children's Tsar' in place in the New Year.