Sunday 08 June 2014 16.14 The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has called for an independent commission of investigation with judicial powers into all mother-and-baby homes.
His comments come after reports of a mass grave of infants and children found in the grounds of a convent run by the Bon Secours order of nuns in Tuam, Co Galway.
The home operated from the 1920s to the 1960s.
The Government has established an initial inquiry, the results of which will determine the nature of a more thorough investigation.
In an interview with RTÉ's This Week, the Archbishop said the issue of adoption should also be included in any inquiry.
Any investigation should be independent of Church and State, he said.
He said: "The indications are that if something happened in Tuam it probably happened in other mother-and-baby homes around the country.
"That's why I believe we need a full-bodied investigation.
"There's no point investigating just what happened in Tuam and then next year finding out more.
"We have to look at the whole culture of mother baby homes; they're talking about medical experiments there."
"They're very complicated and very sensitive issues, but the only way we will come out of this particular period of our history is when the truth comes out," he added.
Dr Martin suggested that Ian Elliott, who he said was a very strong person in the investigation of clerical child sexual abuse, would be the calibre of person needed to lead any investigation.
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin has said it will use its Dáil time this week to address the issue.
The party's health and children spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin called on the Government to initiate a fully independent judicial inquiry into what he called "this latest shameful episode involving a religious order and the failure of the State in its duty of care to its most vulnerable and defenceless citizens".
He said the inquiry needs to look at the care in the homes, infant mortality rates and the burial of children in unmarked graves.
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