Children's Minister urges local authorities to protect mother and baby home burial sites from development

Bessborough: Lands such as this where infants died must be sensitively treated. Picture: Larry Cummins 

Local authorities are to be asked to review lands that formerly housed mother and baby homes to prevent unsuitable developments from proceeding.

Minister for Children Roderic O'Gorman says his priority is to ensure that lands such as Bessborough in Cork city, where over 900 infants born at or associated with the site died, are sensitively treated.