Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Many of us have been deeply shocked by this issue. Everybody across the Houses has expressed shock. My entire family was born in the Grove Hospital in Tuam which was run by the Bon Secours nuns. I have wondered since this story broke whether we were born alongside some of these children who were condemned to the mother and baby homes. Subsequently, I went to boarding school in Tuam and I taught for some time in Tuam. What I am trying to get at here is that never in my living history did I know about this issue.