Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion
Ms Caroline Counihan:
It does not kick in at the stage when people are thinking about what happened to them and wondering if they should make a complaint. In our network just over 60% of clients with whom we deal in any given year tell us about historical child sexual abuse. It is an enormous decision for them to even report it to An Garda Síochána.
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