Mixed feelings over Mother and Baby Homes report delay

The one-year delay in the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Inquiry has received a mixed welcome from survivors.

The request was granted by the Government on foot of a request by the commission in its third interim report.

In that report, completed in September, the commission notes 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 burial s of babies who died in a number of the institutions it is examining.