'Spend the leftover €11.5m on investigation into adoption files'

One of the advocacy groups said funds unspent by the mother and baby homes commission should be used to catalogue and cross-reference adoptees' records and make them available to the people affected. File photo

The Taoiseach's State apology on mother and baby homes will mean nothing unless a full investigation is immediately launched into thousands of incomplete adoption files, campaigners say.

The €11.5m which was left unspent by the mother and baby homes commission must now be used to fully investigate what happened to thousands of children with incomplete adoption files.