"The women are becoming much older, and have many and varied health issues, and the longer it goes on, many will die," she said. "A public inquiry is necessary and what we deserve. It needs to be addressed and it needs to be addressed promptly."
She described the 500-plus page report as a step in the right direction but said it hadn't gone far enough.
It detailed how victims of rape and incest had been put in the mother and baby homes. Women reported how they had to scrub floors during the final stages of pregnancy, and were described as "fallen" and stigmatised.