Seanad debates

Wednesday, 8 October 2003

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements (Resumed).

 

However, ultimately we are here to discuss how we can best relieve the trauma endured by those children. There is no alternative to sitting down and trying to give them some recompense for their suffering over the years. Many will never get it. They have put their views forward time and time again. It is out of concern for them that we who are able should listen and produce a solution as quickly as possible – not 20 years down the road or through the courts. Let us find a way to make their situation easier rather than subjecting them to court cases, which would only traumatise people who have already suffered so much. I am here to put a few points across and speak on behalf of the victims. I ask the State to accept its responsibility, which it has done. I also ask the religious orders to sit down once again at talks to see how we can produce a solution to solve the problem once and for all, setting in motion new institutions that will ensure that such events never happen again in our society.

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