The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes experienced “heavy pushback” from religious orders and was separately threatened with legal action at one stage, one of the members of the Commission has said. Some survivors and families have raised concerns that accounts of evidence they gave to the confidential committee, which was separate to the Commission’s final report, contained errors and misrepresentations. “I don’t think the two should have been put into the one commission”. “So the point I’m trying to make is that everything that went into the main report really had to stand up to cross-examination. It would have taken hundreds of hours of cross checking, re-reading against the other evidence available from registers and so on.

Source: The Irish Times June 02, 2021 19:25 UTC