Ms Carole Brennan:

It is an individual decision whether someone wants to do that or not. One issue is the nuns kept very bad records. The names were often misspelt. This feeds into the question about research. It would be interesting, as part of the research, to find out how many people did go on to find their heritage fathers. I know we are going to speak further on a one-to-one basis. However, there is this idea that we would return to some of our fathers' countries, that most of us have completely denied. I am incredibly uncomfortable with the idea that my father happened to be from Ghana. Would I want to go there? No. However, a part of the healing process - I do want to emphasise that word - is to realise this is not about blame.