Annie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source

There is a real sense of loss. Women I have spoken to feel they have lost their whole lives to this. They were told they were good girls and were diligent, when they were losing their minds trying to be good girls and doing all these things. They feel very betrayed. It is not anybody's fault; it is just how the system was. They feel they have lost their lives. A mourning piece is now happening for how their lives could have been different had something been picked up or had they not been conditioned, through the patriarchy or whatever it was, to behave in a certain way that little girls were very often told to behave, which created all those systems. Maybe that might be-----