Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes

Congregation points out commission had speculated about baby burials at Carr’s Hill

Questions over infant mortality rates and forced adoption expected to be raised by report

No burial records found for more than 800 babies linked with mother and baby home

Commission of investigation investigated seven vaccine trials that came within remit

Pharmacuetical firm was involved in vaccine trials in 7 mother and baby homes

Dr Fintan Gavin urges facilitation of Church to avail people born in homes of birth records

One scheme would be for children born in the homes and another for women who gave birth in the homes

Woman tells commission of being locked alone in a room for 72 hours while in labour

In 1943, 75% of children born at Bessborough Mother and Baby home in Cork died before they turning one

Legislation would allow for exhumation, identification, and reburial of bodies

Zappone ‘reiterated commitment’ to allow Commission of Investigation finish work

Greater public cooperation is required to expose the truth and confront old prejudices

Identification of links with others outside home likely to pose difficulties, says expert

Free service will help prepare witness statements for commission of investigation

Commission of Investigation to examine apparent discrepancy in infants at Cork Mother and Baby Home in the 1940s

Investigation officially underway following formal appointment of three commissioners