Seanad debates
Tuesday, 7 October 2003
Order of Business: Motion. - Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements.
In this instance, such behaviour is all the more unacceptable because it has created an unnecessary chain of consequences. Ms Justice Laffoy had indicated that matters needed to be changed and this would have been the conclusion of any person looking at the matter. She concluded that there was a lack of resources, but it must be suspected that the Minister did not speak to her because he did not want to provide them. On that basis it is hard to understand why, on the one hand, the Government has indicated it is prepared to make all this money available for compensation while, on the other, it will not make money available for resources. These questions need to be answered. It is not about who was right or wrong.
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