Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

What do his measured words amount to? Of course, the woman concerned has no choice but to appeal to the Supreme Court where the Government will claim in defence that it has no legal responsibility for the actions of teachers in such circumstances. However, here we have a circumstance where the Taoiseach believes on the one hand an organisation can cap its liability at £100 million for people abused in residential institutions with the State picking up the remaining €1.2 billion, while on the other hand in a case involving an individual citizen where the principal was jailed for sexual abuse——

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