Seanad debates
Wednesday, 8 October 2003
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements (Resumed).
I recall the stories told by the unfortunate young people from Daingean of having to work hard on farms when they were very young and hungry much of the time. One boy told me he was punished for eating a piece of one of the turnips he was pulling. The regime that existed in those days left much to be desired. It is a cause of sadness to me, as a practising Catholic, that those young people went to Mass every morning and some were abused every night. The Taoiseach was correct to make a full apology to those who were abused and I would have expected no less of a public representative or Taoiseach.
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