Parties re-commit to commission of inquiry into foster care abuse claims

The two parties in pole position to form the next government have re-committed to establishing a state investigation into graphic abuse of a woman with severe intellectual disabilities after two months of inaction on the issue.

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil both confirmed they will set up the investigation if they gain power, after the inquiry was promised days before the election began.

After a year of reports by the Irish Examiner, the outgoing Fine Gael-Labour government agreed days before the general election was called in early February to set up a state commission of inquiry into alleged abuse at a foster home in Waterford.