Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015

9:00 am

Ms Mary Higgins:

I think there is a narrative and for very obvious and justifiable reasons we have a situation where thousands of people were taken away from their families, as children, and put into institutions which were brutal. I do not think as a society we have processed what happened there and I do not think we have faced up to what the effects are on those people and on society as a whole. There is a simplistic kind of narrative-----