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

Having been through this for 20 or 25 years now, I have seen that in all of the various commissions and investigations, lawyers get involved very quickly and it moves very quickly to redress. We do it, and the State owes redress, but the more substantive response in my view is lifelong provision of counselling, housing and supports for people who have been through terrible ordeals in their lives because of institutionalisation or whatever. That is a view I have formed over a long time dealing with many cases of this kind.

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