Baby homes commission chair asked to explain destruction of witness testimony recordings

The graveyard at the former mother and baby home, Bessborough, in Blackrock, Cork. Stenographers were not present at the confidential committee hearings which heard from 550 people. Picture: Laura Hutton

The chair of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission has been called on to explain why recordings of witness testimony were destroyed without detailed transcripts being made.

Fianna Fáil senator Erin McGreehan has reiterated calls for the authors of the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes Report to come before the Oireachtas Children’s Committee.