Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 9 December 2020
164. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes' report is 3,000 or 4,000 pages in length; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42247/20]
View answerThe Final Report submitted to me by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters is just under 3,000 pages long. Previous references to the length of the Report were given on the basis of preliminary indications by the Commission while it was finalising the Report. At that time, I had not been given sight of the Report, and I was relaying the high level figure which had been provided to me by the Commission to give some sense of the scale of the report.
As I announced on the 3 December, I am advancing arrangements to seek Government approval to publish the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation during the week of 11 January next.
For the avoidance of any doubt, the Report that will be published in January is the full Report as submitted to me by the Commission on 30 October. It will not been edited, altered or redacted in any way.
