Pressure on mother and baby homes commission members to appear before Oireachtas

Members of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes have been asked to appear before the Children's Committee after commission member Prof Mary Daly said that testimony provided by 550 survivors was discounted from the final report. File picture: RollingNews.ie

After this week's revelations, the ball is firmly back in the court of the members of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes who have been asked to appear before an Oireachtas committee.

Children's Committee chair Kathleen Funchion has written to the commission's chair Judge Yvonne Murphy, requesting that she and her two colleagues appear on June 17, but they do not have to accept this invitation.