No breach of fair procedure in relation to mother and baby homes report, High Court told

The court heard that submissions that the women were told during childbirth that they would have to “suffer for their sins” were actually contained in the report

Philomena Lee (pictured). Eoin McCullough SC, representing the State parties, said her submission that it “isn’t good enough” to blame the treatment of the women in the homes on the societal morals of the time, is a “simple difference of view” between her and the findings of the report. File photo: Mark Stedman

Some points raised in the High Court cases taken by two former residents of mother and baby homes relate to a “difference of view” about the Commission of Investigation’s findings and do not raise issues of fair procedure, counsel for the State has said.

Eoin McCullough SC, representing the State parties, said many of the issues raised by the applicants are disagreements about the substance, and sometimes the conclusions, of the report of the Commission of Inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes.