Bessborough Mother And Baby Home Back In Spotlight
Questions regarding decisions made by the HSE in relation to Cork's Mother & Baby home are again in the spotlight.
The HSE has refused to say why concerns raised about the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in 2012 were not reported to the then health minister James Reily.
Senior managment within the HSE had raised concerns about what they described as the "shocking" infant mortality rates and possible trafficking of children at Bessborough two years before the Tuam babies scandal emerged.
An unpublished report into Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in 2012 outlined that almost 500 children died at the institution over a 19-year period.
Minister for children Katherine Zappone said it was a pity the HSE did not investigate the issues raised in 2012, however she dismissed the Bessborough report outlining hundreds of infant deaths as conjecture.
Speaking to RedFM News Irish Examiner reporter Conall O'Faharta says the State has the answers to these questions:
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