Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The only way it can come forward now is through a commission of inquiry. It could be done on a module-by-module basis and in this jurisdiction alone it could be very revealing.

Surely people would come forward in the context of a commission of inquiry and say who was involved in that kangaroo court in 2002. Who were the people who attended it and carried out the internal investigation, who were essentially complicit in preventing it from getting to the Garda? I have talked to people in the child law area. There is a duty defined in legislation and interpreted in case law to be proactive in their investigation of allegations of abuse for the purpose of protecting children from potential abuse now or into the future.

A question that would have to be asked, for example, is where are those alleged perpetrators now? These people exiled this person in 2002 in the full knowledge that the person had committed abuse not just to Paudie McGahon, but to others. The bottom line is what access did that perpetrator and others have to children in their daily lives through family or employment?

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