Children exhumed from mother and baby home sites 'may not get coroner's report'

Children exhumed from mother and baby home sites 'may not get coroner's report'

Lists of the names of dead children are among the items placed at the grotto at the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home run by the Bon Secours Sisters. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Serious concerns have been raised that hundreds of children buried on the grounds of former mother and baby homes may not get a coroner's report after they are exhumed.

Department of Children officials privately briefed the children's committee on new legislation to allow for the exhumation of those who died in Tuam mother and baby home.

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