An extensive report into decades of abuse of women and children at the hands of religious-run mother and baby homes in Ireland is to be published today.
A Mother and Baby home survivor has said she is "delighted" the findings of a report into the decades of abuse of women and children faced in the institutions are being published today.
Cabinet will discuss the 4,000-page report this morning before it is formally published at around 3pm.
Details of the report, which were published in the Sunday Independent, showed 9,000 children died in 18 different mother and baby homes after the foundation of the State.
In total, 57,000 children were born in these institutions and one in seven died, a rate that was far above the infant mortality rate at the time.
The commission was unable to establish how many children died or where they were buried in the case of some mother and baby homes due to a lack of records.
The report contains first-hand accounts of nuns taunting women in childbirth, saying they enjoyed themselves nine months previously.
As part of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation a confidential committee was established to provide a forum for people who were former residents of the homes. Many of the witnesses that came forward had never discussed their experiences with any other person.