Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach's very first line that he does not know what it is I am proposing concerns me. I am proposing that we build accountability into the system. There has been a myriad of different reports. When harm has been done, the first response tends to be about financial compensation, which is appropriate, but very often whistleblowers and people who have been harmed want more than that. They want to be sure that the same people who have failed in their positions of responsibility will be held personally responsible and will not be there to repeat those failures. We do not build those systems of accountability into our systems. It is very obvious because week after week we hear of different scandals. There is an origin for that. How can someone move an abuser from one ward to another and not think that is wrong? How can someone, for example, disregard things such as safeguarding and feel there is no accountability? Why is accountability not built into system? That is the point I am trying to get to.

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