Letters to the Editor: Flawed mother and baby home report

'Getting basic facts wrong was compounded by a refusal to allow those who testified to see what was written about them prior to publication.'

The State’s admission in the High Court that “the rights of eight former residents of mother and baby homes were breached by the failure to provide them with a draft copy” of the Mother And Baby Home Commission Report exposes the latter’s flawed methodology.

Instead of being victim-centred, it shrouded itself in secrecy. The commission refused to reconcile figures on burials in a draft interim report with those of Bethany mother and baby home researchers. The commission shut up shop, maintaining splendid isolation from anyone asking simple but important questions.