Minister demands to know how Mother and Baby Homes Report was leaked

Roderic O'Gorman has written to survivors' networks to apologise for the manner in which the details of the report were made public.

Children's minister Roderic O'Gorman said that he was "deeply angered" about how details of the report were made public.

The children's minister is demanding an investigation into how details of the Mother and Baby Homes Report were leaked, as survivors describe the Government's mishandling of the publication as distressing and hurtful.

The report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation will officially be published on Tuesday, and is set to reveal that up to 9,000 children died in the homes from the 1930s onwards, with one child in seven not surviving the institutions.