Liam Quaide (Cork East, Social Democrats)

Yesterday, the solicitor representing the disabled woman known as Grace released a shocking statement on the Farrelly commission report. Ms Marie-Claire Butler said her "considered and extensive submissions" to the commission were not included or referred to in any way in the report and that she felt the need to bring this to light. Grace is the person at the centre of years of many reports into her neglect and prolonged exposure to risk of abuse in a foster home in County Waterford. She has been tragically failed over and over. She has been at the mercy of years of concealment, deflection and neglect by the HSE and successive Governments. There has been no accountability for any of this. There were already so many questions about the Farrelly commission before this statement was released yesterday. Does the Taoiseach agree that we urgently need to see Ms Farrelly SC and the Minister, Deputy Foley, appear before the Joint Committee on Disability Matters to answer questions on this issue?

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