Dáil debates
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Order of Business
5:45 pm
Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, United Left) | Oireachtas source
Regarding the proposed mother and baby homes inquiry, how can the Taoiseach square stating in the Chamber last Wednesday week that all incidents of sexual abuse should be examined when the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs was at the same time telling the Westbank Orphanage survivors that sexual or any other kind of abuse will not be examined in the proposed mother and baby homes inquiry?
Terri Harrison
Posted on 27 Nov 2014 5:44 pm (Report this comment)
I agree wholeheartedly, insofar as, people are what count here, all people, discrimination against any form of "institution" is not acceptable. I believe it is intrinsic to the respect of all survivors to shown by our Society , the same imperative attention to this matter. I urge those now in leadership status, to pave the way for those whom follow. Begin a new model of the world. Change how we deal with such sensitive matters today, and leave what cannot be changed to the past, where such ignorance belongs.
Terri Harrison (survivor of real abuse, within a State owned institution)