Children's Minister Katherine Zappone has said it will be a number of
weeks before her department has finished looking at what other
institutions and that she hopes men come forward to testify in any
investigations.
She said the shocking revelations have forced Ireland to confront a dark period of our past.
"As the poet laureate Anne Enright says 'the dead do not lie' and we
are, all of the people in Ireland, throughout the country and
internationally as well, trying to come to terms with what does this
actually mean for our country," she said.http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-dead-dont-lie-minister-zappone-hopes-men-will-come-forward-to-reveal-what-they-knew-about-mother-and-baby-home-practices-35518646.html