Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
Dail Éireann — 2022-01-26
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

It seems to be another day with another promise broken by the Government. There was a specific promise by the Government to investigate a specific leak of a major report on the experience of men and women who have been let down and treated badly and shockingly by the State, from the day they were born in many cases. It is so frustrating to see that damage being done again. Why did the specific investigation transition into a generalised investigation of leaks by the Government? Who made the decision to do that? How long does it take to carry out an investigation to establish who leaked a document to a journalist? How can it take a year to do that? It smacks of a Government that is trying to dissolve the focus away from this specific group and this specific wrongdoing.

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Sitting date: 2022-01-26