Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Like every Member of this House and every citizen in the county, I thought we had become inured to the things that fall out of our dark past in this county. However, the discovery of a mass grave of infants and children is something so shocking that it jars all of us to our core. The Government is determined to get to the bottom of what exactly is the situation in Tuam. All the questions the Deputy asked must be answered not only in regard to Tuam, but also the other centres. For that reason, we have established an interdepartmental group which has already begun to meet and will report back to Government as quickly as is practicable and possible, but certainly no later than the end of this month, on how we should proceed. This Government is ruling out nothing in terms of what needs to be done. The sense almost of revulsion of the people of Ireland at the callous disregard for the most innocent of our young people has to be met with openness and clarity, which is what the Government will do.

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