Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

I ask the Leader to facilitate Senator Twomey's request to have a further debate on the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. That report is just the beginning and I agree with Senator Harris. How we handle the report and what we do in the future will be a litmus test of how we are as a people and as a society. It is not good enough to talk about days of atonement and days of remembrance. We need to see action and results that will in some small way help ease the pain of the people who have suffered. We can never allow ourselves to go back to those days.

I look forward to the publication of the Dublin archdiocese report. No matter what Archbishop Martin has done, the colour of where he goes from now will be how he handles the report on his archdiocese.