Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes, he did, but in respect of all of these matters the Department of Education and Skills, the Department of Justice and Equality and every single other Department were involved at different levels. My point is that it is denial, denial until the institution and each Department is absolutely forced to do something.

My final question is in relation to the mother and baby homes. It relates to redress. This has been used as an obstacle to a possible redress. In all the meetings I attended, none of the survivors asked for redress. What they asked for was truth and information so that they would be empowered. That has not happened. That is the problem. The redress is a separate issue entirely. I forget the question I was going to ask so I will come back to it.

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