Draft legislation on Mother and Baby Homes to go before Cabinet next week

A pair of baby shoes with a massage hanging at the walls of the Mother and Baby home burial site in Tuam, Co Galway.

Draft legislation to allow for the excavation and exhumation of remains on mother and baby home sites is to be brought to Cabinet next week.

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman will publish the long-awaited Institutional Burials Bill immediately after Cabinet on Tuesday.