Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

If I did not honour those commitments, I would have been in here week after week saying why I did not. The fact is I honoured the commitments and we will finish that process. The State is not liable for abuse by teachers or others — they are not State employees. In one case the State was liable jointly for children it took into care and in the other case it was not.

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