Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have not read the interim report the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Katherine Zappone, has. I am quite sure she is in consultation with people about this. I see no reason the report cannot be published, the same as any other report. It may have to be in some redacted form. I do not know because I have not seen it or read it. I am quite sure the Minister will answer for that.

I want Deputy Connolly to understand that I am as committed as anybody else to seeing that we deal with this once and for all. I come from the west, as the Deputy well knows. I cannot put a figure on the number of young women in my time since the 1950s who were sent away to foster homes or other countries to have their children, simply because they became pregnant out of wedlock. If you think that I insult the women Ireland by trying to do what I want to do here in respect of our Government, our country and our people, then you are very much mistaken.

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