Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion
1:10 pm
Michael Conaghan (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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We must learn from it and not just pretend this is not there. That is the point of bringing it to the surface, so that it is not forever kept underwater by tying big stones to it. That is what happened in the past and it is part of the problem we have today. We buried things, hid things and pretended things did not happen. All kinds of things happen in society and we must take account of that.