Survivors didn't receive report because Government 'didn't have their addresses'

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman: Reiterated to the committee that an 'investigation' into the leaking of the report to a Sunday newspaper will be set up. File picture

Mother and baby home survivors did not get hard copies of the Commission of Investigation's report because the Department of Children did not have their addresses, a committee has heard.

The Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs had a private 90-minute meeting with Minister Roderic O'Gorman today, where members queried a number of failings by the Government.