Opposition to bill which will seal Mother & Baby Home Commission archive

Minister for Children Roderic O Gorman, who said the premise of the 2004 Act is "that investigations are held in private". Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Planned legislation that will see the Mother and Baby Homes Commission archive sealed for 30 years will block access to information about “disappeared relatives or babies who are buried in unmarked graves.”

Academics and campaigners have lined up in opposition to the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters) Records Bill 2020, scheduled for discussion in the Seanad on Wednesday.