‘Difficult to establish facts’ on burials at homes

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission has admitted it will be “difficult to establish the facts” surrounding the burials of children who died in all of the homes it is investigating.

The revelation is contained at the end of the Commission’s third interim report and comes as the Government has granted the inquiry a one-year extension to complete its work. The Commission will now publish its final reports in February 2019.

In its latest interim report, the Commission notes that while there are “detailed death records available” in relation to mother and baby homes, there are also “significant gaps” in the information available about the burials of babies who died in a number of the institutions it is examining.