Mary White (Fianna Fail)

It is disrespectful because anyone who engages in the pursuit of human rights always faces problems from those who hold a different view.

I call for a debate on the inquiry in the Dublin archdiocese. Last night the discussion was guillotined and I call for it to be urgently renewed, bearing in mind the words of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern. He has stated emotion and being upset and disturbed are not enough, that the evil men who raped and assaulted children in the State must face justice meted out by the State and its people, justice which is blind to position, power or clerical rank, which knows only innocence or guilt as defined by the people and as set down by the Oireachtas in the laws of Ireland, a republic.

I also call for the papal nuncio to attend the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children at which we have had many discussions on children and child abuse. I commend the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Micheál Martin, for demanding the immediate attendance of the papal nuncio at the Department of Foreign Affairs. It is right that the Minister is not expected to go to the papal nuncio's home in the Phoenix Park.