Minister consulting with Attorney General over destroyed mother and baby home records

Children's Minister Roderic O Gorman has contacted the Attorney General about the destruction of 550 submissions to the Mother and Baby Home Commission. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The Children's Minister is to ask the Mother and Baby Homes Commission to exhaust every possible avenue to retrieve the 550 recordings they destroyed.

The commission wrote to Roderic O'Gorman this week stating its IT staff had looked into recovering the audio but said "at this stage it seems that they are unretrieveable".