Seanad debates
Wednesday, 8 October 2003
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements (Resumed).
Can anyone genuinely suggest that every one of the people who gave of their time and services to care for the most vulnerable people in society when the State was not capable of doing so is now to be held responsible in some way for the terrible deeds of a minority? If one accepts that logic and takes it one step further, does that mean that all connected with people who betray a position of trust are to be held responsible, ridiculed, sidelined and demonised? I say with much consideration that, if we go down that road, we will do immense harm to society.
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