Call to extend mother and baby homes commission over destroyed recordings

Survivors have raised concerns that their testimony was not accurately recorded and say the final report does not reflect their experiences of mother and baby homes.Picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

The Social Democrats is to bring forward a Bill to extend the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Inquiry for a year to allow for a full investigation into the destruction of recordings of witness testimony.

Personal accounts provided by 550 people to the confidential committee were destroyed in July of last year without any verbatim transcripts being made.