Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

When the Minister delayed the report until yesterday, she failed to go back to the commission and ask them to update the report. Events overtook that report and what was discovered in Tuam shocked the Government. The Minister failed to go back to outline the significance of what has happened and to say where we are going with this. The Minister has left it up to a local busy GP who happens to be the coroner to look after the Tuam site. What was the last figure for the number of babies discovered with six mothers on the Tuam site? Can she recall? She is leaving that to a local busy GP. She is going all over the place with consultation, scoping, transitional justice and Caranua. The survivor groups that have spoken to me do not want any of that. They want her to report back on what happened in Tuam over the past six to nine months. Where is that at? How is that influencing the commission? What terms need to be changed? What access to records is there?

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