I prefer to think of last week's speech by the Taoiseach as the first of two. It was a speech in which he was unswervingly angry and gave expression to the anger that many people feel about the evils in our distant and recent past. The speech failed to acknowledge serious failures of legislatures throughout the 1990s and the good work done in recent years in the church, especially at the level of the Vatican since 2001. In that sense, the Taoiseach could be said to have told the truth but not the full truth in his speech. The allegation about interference up to three years ago was, in the end, unsubstantiated and, therefore, may have been untruthful. We await further details. It is not unreasonable to hope, therefore, that there will be an even better speech in the future and that the forthcoming engagement with the Vatican will lead to acknowledgement on all sides of the serious faults in the approach of church and State and of the goodwill and constructive contributions on all sides in recent years.