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Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Jan O'Sullivan: I quoted from Ms Justice Laffoy's resignation letter.

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Noel Dempsey: What extra resources will I make available to the commission? I will wait to see whether the commission, under Mr. Justice Ryan, requests extra resources. Whatever resources are needed will be made available to him. What extra resources will be made available in the Department of Education and Science to meet discovery orders? Extra resources will not be necessary to be made available in the...

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Dan Boyle: Given Ms Justice Laffoy's criticisms of the co-operation she received from the Department of Education and Science, have the Minister and his Department learned any lessons from it, especially when there are other ongoing investigations with Oireachtas committees? The criticism of the quality of information is a valid one. I have seen pages of barely altered e-mails that have been submitted...

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Noel Dempsey: I did not say that the provision of the 500,000 pages was a resolution of the issue. I used it as an illustration to show that the Department had nothing to hide and wanted to make everything available to the commission that it possibly——

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Dan Boyle: It was the very way of hiding it; snow the commission under with information.

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Noel Dempsey: One cannot win on this issue as one either provides too much or too little. The information was provided. It was not a case of providing it and bringing it over in wheelbarrows. It was carefully copied, indexed, catalogued, put on a database and provided to the commission. All information was supplied. The commission began using discovery orders later on because it felt that, as it was using...

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Ms Justice Laffoy stated that, arising from interviews given by the then Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Woods, she sought discovery in the belief that departmental documents would explain why the State assumed culpability in all circumstance in all cases and why the contribution from the religious was capped at €128 million. Ms Justice Laffoy believed these documents would help...

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Noel Dempsey: I said yesterday and will say it again that I find the fixation with the statement made by the previous Minister mysterious. I have not spoken to Deputy Woods on this issue. However, I believe that, in that radio interview, Deputy Woods said what we in this House all believe, what any Member would have said when asked such a question and which is now proved in the report——

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: It was a fair question. Will the Minister give the answer?

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy asked the question and I will give him the answer. What Deputy Woods said has been now proved by the third interim report and will be proved again with regard to other institutions. I surmise that Deputy Woods based his opinion that the State was liable on the information that we all had and knew through the television programmes and from various victims' groups and individuals...

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Joan Burton: That is farcical.

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Olwyn Enright: The Minister still denies it.

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: From television programmes. That is beyond belief.

Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse: Statements. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Carey: That concludes statements on the third interim report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.

Private Members' Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Private Members' Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Care of the Elderly: Motion.

Care of the Elderly: Motion. (3 Feb 2004)

Paudge Connolly: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that:—— — approximately 440,000 people or 11% of the State's population are over 65 years of age; — of these, approximately 266,000 are over 70 years, one third of whom live alone; — 25,000 elderly people are in long-stay beds or nursing homes; — a further 13,000 elderly people who need high to maximum dependency care continue to live at home;...

Care of the Elderly: Motion. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Carey: Is that agreed? Agreed. Is the Deputy sharing his time equally? We have a software problem here with the clock.

Care of the Elderly: Motion. (3 Feb 2004)

Paudge Connolly: It is not quite equal. It is proposed to give five minutes each to Deputies Gregory and James Breen, four minutes to Deputy McHugh, five minutes each to Deputies Sargent and Boyle and ten minutes to Deputy Ó Caoláin. Although most older people wish to remain at home, State policies are directed towards their leaving home for a nursing home bed. Families may apply for subventions for private...

Care of the Elderly: Motion. (3 Feb 2004)

Tony Gregory: This motion deals with the failure of the State to adequately provide for care of the vulnerable elderly, particularly those in disadvantaged communities. I focus on the services provided by day care centres and the home help service as these are, to a significant degree, the two main community-based services for the elderly in the north inner city area I represent. By coincidence, earlier...