I could not put on record the stories I was told by some of the young people who were abused during the era in question. As a person from County Offaly, which had an institution wherein child abuse occurred, I regret that there were not better rules and inspection methods in place, perhaps at a local authority level. Visiting committees from local authorities should have visited the institutions, just as health boards established visiting committees for their institutions more recently. Any institution dealing with young people with any handicap should certainly have visiting committees of elected public representatives to see at first hand exactly what is happening.