James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

While I welcome the freer ability of social workers, I do not believe it goes far enough and we need more appointed.

My main point is simple and it concerns an issue broader than that of health. There are four Ministers across the Chamber. Surely they realise the absolute necessity that the Garda would investigate all dioceses to check for the situation that pertains in the Archdiocese of Dublin. We know well it is not limited to Dublin, nor was it limited to Ferns. All dioceses need to be investigated by the Garda. It is not a matter of focusing on the children, although, of course, that is important. The perpetrators who inflicted this pain on the victims have to be brought to book, and the victims must be given the right of redress and the right to confront their predators.

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