Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

I accept fully what the Minister is saying. Anyone who has any interest in this is not out to do damage. People genuinely want to do right when it comes to it. However, we do not need an audit to tell us that we need national guidelines. This report gave us that. Equally, we do not need an audit to tell us that we need a child sexual abuse unit in HSE regional areas.

My big concern is that there will be an audit which will then lead to a group of people sitting down around a table to see what happens next and this time next year we still will not be any further down the road. There are recommendations in here which need to be implemented now.

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