Seanad debates

Wednesday, 8 October 2003

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

 

As a parliamentarian, I felt slighted over the summer when the letter from Ms Justice Laffoy to the Government was published in a Sunday newspaper. We are Members of the Oireachtas. It was the responsibility of both the Dáil and the Seanad to establish the commission chaired by Ms Justice Laffoy. We discovered the reasons for her resignation in a Sunday newspaper. Ms Justice Laffoy is not entirely blameless for that. When she decided to resign, as was her right, she had a responsibility to send her letter to every Member of the Oireachtas and not only to the Government. She was given substantial powers by this and the other House and she had a responsibility to tell us the reason she was resigning. I regret I learned of her resignation from a Sunday newspaper.

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