Minister to hold briefing on interim report into Tuam mother and baby homes with focus on burial arrangements

Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Children's Minister will hold a briefing at Government buildings this morning on the latest report on Tuam mother and baby home and other such institutions nationwide.

The fifth interim report on Mother and Baby Homes is expected to focus on burial arrangements for the women and children who died in the institutions.

The report from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission was brought to cabinet by Children's Minister Katherine Zappone yesterday and is to be officially published later this morning.

The commission has been investigating 14 mother and baby homes as well as four 'county homes' which were in operation between the years 1922 and 1998.

A briefing will take place at Government buildings later this morning.