Sinn Féin seeks Dáil debate on baby deaths

Deaths and burials of children at mother-and-baby homes will be debated in the Dáil this week amid mounting demands for a full inquiry into the operation of such facilities.

Sinn Féin has tabled a two-day debate under private members business and will demand that the Government initiate a full inquiry into the operation of such homes.

It comes amid calls for an inquiry into the former Bon Secours sisters institution in Tuam, Co Galway, where there are concerns that hundreds of infants were buried in a mass grave.