Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Ms Sarah Bland was sexually abused by her father even though her mother, Ms Patricia Bland, tried to raise the issue and get an interim custody order in 1981. This matter has been out in the open. It was debated at Stormont in 2001 and 2007 and in the Seanad in 2009.

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