A legal expert is calling for the government to set up a Commission of Inquiry style examination of mother and baby homes.

Conor O'Mahony is a lecturer in Constitutional Law at UCC.

The Children's Minister has confirmed that whatever investigation is set up into the babies' grave in Tuam will also look at the possibility of other graves around the country.

Work is already underway on an 'inter-departmental' initiative - but Conor O'Mahony says the amount of material involved warrants a bigger effort: