Do you have a source for that statement? I looked over the interviews, and cannot find that quote.
Ultimately, of course, this controversy will be decided when an excavation either does, or does not, unearth a septic tank with the bodies of 800 infants dumped in it. I am very skeptical of that claim - I was when I first heard it. But time will tell.
Dr Diarmuid Martin, the second-highest ranking prelate in the country, said only an independent commission of investigation with judicial powers could address public concerns in the wake of the discovery of a mass grave of infants and children found in the grounds of a convent run by the Bon Secours order of nuns in Tuam, Co Galway last week.