'Circling of wagons' adds to trauma of mother and baby home survivors, opposition says

Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald TD.

The opposition says "the buck stops with the state" regarding the mother and baby homes scandal.

In response to the Taoiseach's apology to survivors, in which he noted that all of society was to blame, many of Micheál Martin's political rivals said it was a "cop-out".