Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

The main thing many of the abused persons wanted was a situation where the people who abused them had no hiding place but were brought out into the open and identified. At the time the Bill was on Committee Stage in the Dáil I heard people making submissions to the effect that they were frustrated and aggrieved that there was somebody out there who had abused them savagely but was still somehow protected. While they cannot ever have satisfaction in their lives, on account of what they endured, they want it made public who their abusers were and the institutions in which the abuse took place. They want to know where their abusers are, because many of them are still alive. That is what they hoped for from the Bill and that is why I tabled the amendments.