Mother and baby homes  report author invited before  committee 

Statue of Our Lay Mary outside the Good Shepherd Catholic Church on the Ormeau Road in Belfast which shared the site with Magdalen Asylum ran by Roman Catholic Good Shepherd Sisters from 1867, with the Laundry closing in 1977. A report into the operation of institutions for women and babies in Northern Ireland is to be published later. PA Photo. Picture date: Monday January 25, 2021.The academic research on mother and baby homes and Magdalene Laundries was considered by Stormont ministers on Tuesday morning. See PA story ULSTER MotherBaby. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

The authors of the Mother and Baby Homes report are to be invited to appear before the Oireachtas Children's Committee.

It's understood the committee agreed during a private meeting that the chair of the three-person Commission of Investigation, Judge Yvonne Murphy, will receive a letter from the committee to answer questions on the report, however, Justice Murphy is not required to do so.