Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)

The delay is a reflection of the amount of work being done by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church and the HSE. The volume of material from the dioceses is as I have outlined. There has been a very good response, which I welcome, and a lot of new material has been presented. It was presented in January and February in response to further work the HSE was doing. It was on that basis that the board asked for extra time.

When the Deputy talks about timeframes, I must remind him this should have been published in October 2010. It was not.

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