Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation (officially the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters) is a judicial commission of investigation, established in 2015 by an order of the Irish government to investigate mother and baby homes—institutions, most run by Catholic religious sisters, where unwed women were sent to deliver their babies.[1] It was set up following claims that the bodies of up to 800 babies and children may have been interred in an unmarked mass grave in the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, located in Tuam, County Galway. Its remit additionally covers investigation into the records of and the practices at an additional thirteen Mother and Baby Homes. The members of the three-person Commission are Judge Yvonne Murphy (chairperson), Dr William Duncan and Professor Mary E. Daly.

Originally scheduled to issue its final report by February 2018, the Commission was granted a series of extensions.[2][3] In January 2021, the final report detailed that around 9,000 children, one in seven of those born in the 18 institutions covered by the Commission's terms of reference, had died in them between 1922 and 1998, double the rate of infant mortality in the general population.[4] The final report was published on 12 January.[4] On 13 January 2021, the Taoiseach Micheál Martin made a formal apology to survivors on behalf of the state.[5][6]

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