Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Sinn Féin is committed to dealing with all the legacy issues arising from the conflict in the North and the Government is also obliged to deal with these under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement and the other agreements in an appropriate way. Any measure that would bring truth and closure to victims of abuse would be welcomed by me.

As we address this difficult issue, we should also not lose sight of the fact that there is an unprecedented level of duplicity in the attitude, particularly of Fianna Fáil and of its leadership. A succession of damning reports, including the Ryan commission report, the Ferns inquiry report, the Cloyne report and the Murphy report and the scandal of the Magdalen laundries and the Bethany Home all exposed the extent to which the Catholic hierarchy and the Irish State and successive Governments made up of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party were involved in the institutional abuse of tens of thousands of children over decades or in the cover up of this abuse.

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