Letters to the Editor: Reforming mother and baby home restitution scheme should be our focus  

'The State is keen to defray its culpability by focusing instead on religious institutions it approved of, regulated, and inspected'

Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin where the unmarked graves of 40 children from Bethany House were discovered in 2010. File picture: Mark Stedman/RollingNews

A report that Sheila Nunan’s official negotiations with Roman Catholic Church bodies and the Church of Ireland on mother and baby home restitution payments produced no cash is not a surprise.

The long-delayed result is the product of an exercise in collective hypocrisy, primarily governmental.