O’Gorman: Mother and baby homes report revealed 'truth of what happened' in institutions

In the series of letters, sent on the day the final report was published, Roderic O’Gorman said one of the most striking things in the Commission’s findings and the Confidential Committee report was “the shame felt by women who became pregnant outside of marriage and the stigma of illegitimacy that was so cruelly attached to their children”. File picture: Conor McCabe

Children’s minister Roderic O’Gorman said the Mother and Baby Homes Commission report revealed “the truth of what happened” in the institutions in a letter to Orders seeking a financial contribution to the Government’s redress scheme.

In a series of letters to the religious orders that ran Mother and Baby Institutions, as well as to the Archbishops of Dublin and Armagh sent on January 12, 2021, Mr O’Gorman said the Commission had “delivered an independent, comprehensive, and factual account of the institutions under investigation, and the experiences of the women and children who resided there for a period”.