Dáil debates
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Pathway to Redress for Victims of Convicted Child Sexual Abusers: Motion [Private Members]
6:15 pm
Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
If the State has a liability because of its failing, that has to be established and applied equally. It cannot be applied through using a conviction in a criminal court as establishing that the State had a liability. Convictions occur and the State is not by that proven to have been responsible.
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