Seanad debates
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion
4:00 pm
Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)
——but also the school, the community and the court decisions that were taken. The terms of reference simply do not allow for that, which is very disturbing. On a day when the Seanad is discussing the issue of 1,000 people who have been abused in various residential settings and a report on it costing €79 million, which will be well spent if it prevents the sort of abuse it will outline, to be setting up another inquiry in the same week that is not as objective as it should be and that is not a commission of inquiry with the power——
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