Sinn Féin urged Taoiseach to extend Mother and Baby Home Commission

Pleas were made in the Dáil to extend the commission to allow for a full investigation of the destruction of mother and baby home recordings. Picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has written to the Taoiseach calling on him to directly intervene to extend the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.

Ms McDonald said it would be "unconscionable" to allow the commission to be dissolved before a full investigation into the destruction of the recordings of 550 witness testimonies is carried out.