Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----but that must be real in practice as well as in rhetoric. It is not appropriate and will not build public confidence for the Garda to investigate itself or for the HSE to investigate itself. Why not give the investigative process to the Ombudsman for Children in the first instance and allow her independent office, which is charged with the rights and welfare of children, to take the inquiry from start to finish?

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