The extent of the dumping of children's remains at the Bon Seccour mother and baby home in Tuam, Co. Galway has reignited the whole issue of religious orders  making a just contribution to the cost of the sexual abuse scandal of religious orders, which has cost the Irish taxpayer €1.5B .  Institutions have only paid 13% and had agreed to pay 50%. The Irish government is now planning a request for a direct intervention from Pope Francis; to instruct the religious orders to pay-up.  There is a head of steam building up that may surprise the Vatican. A legal and moral battle may follow.

The children's remains were dumped because they were born out of wedlock and that was a very grievous sin against RCC morality. They were not fit to be buried in consecrated burial grounds. The poor mothers were untouchables in the eyes of the church; to be outcasts. So much for their Christian values preached from the pulpit.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has stated that institutions must pay.