Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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I thank Mr. Conlan for attending the meeting. Can he understand how shocked I am, as a teacher who is on leave of absence from Scoil Mochua, which is under the patronage of the CRC, at these revelations? I thought the limits of my capacity to be shocked had been reached at the last meeting, but I was wrong. The staff and students of Scoil Mochua are also shocked at what has transpired. Does Mr. Conlan comprehend how these revelations take away from the core work in which the CRC is meant to be engaged? One of the problems with this discussion is that it is easy to forget that the point of the CRC is to look after the needs of the students and patients in its care. Does Mr. Conlan appreciate the huge damage that has been done to those people as a consequence of what has transpired?