Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I have before me the statement issued by the Minister of State with responsibility for children following the publication of the Ferns Report. He said the review of the guidelines would be complete by December 2007. Has that review been completed yet? Will it be published? When will it be put in the Oireachtas Library and be available for a debate in this House? Does the Government intend to give statutory force to the guidelines to ensure that what is happening today does not continue to happen because the debate we will have in this House today, looking back at what happened in residential institutions in the past——

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