Expert: 'Unprecedented' cost of uncovering truth about Mother and Baby Homes must be paid

Children's toys and flowers sit at the 'Little Angels' memorial plot on the grounds of Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in House in Cork. Picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

The costs in uncovering the truth about the Mother and Baby Home scandal will be “unprecedented” but must be paid, the expert behind the Hillsborough disaster campaign has said.

Prof Phil Scraton told a session of the Oireachtas Committee on Equality and Disability that: “You cannot put a price on justice.”