The Cabinet’s due to sign off this morning on the terms for a state inquiry into the handling of the Grace case.
The inquiry will have six months to issue an interim report, and 12 months to finish its work.
It’s designed to establish exactly how Grace was left with her foster family in the first place, what monitoring there was of her placement, and the decisions made about how she was left there.
There’ll be particular focus on the decision made in 1996 to remove her, and why it was not followed up.
Meanwhile Grace’s ‘birth-mother’ has said “She’s the first thing I think of in the morning and the last thing I think of at night”
She’s been speaking with RTÉ and says she wont rest until she gets answers saying she never gave up on her daughter and never will.
She’s rejected an apology from the HSE saying she doesn’t trust what they have to say.
