Calls to stop the sealing of Mother and Baby Home archive for 30 years

Plaque on the wall of the graveyard At Bessboro which bears the following inscription 'In remembrance of all babies who died before or shortly after birth. I gathered you in all your freshness before a single breeze had damaged your purity'. 

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.