David Norris (Independent)

The third demand was access to the health entitlements and benefits promised by the Government in 2003. Those are the three demands and I support every single one of them. These are dreadful matters but so is the matter I raised in the House the other day and I still await another Senator to take it up. When a 16 year old boy in Holland who reported the fact that he was sexually abused to the police he was taken back to the Catholic institution where he was castrated. An investigation was carried out in that home. That boy would be the same age as me. That is why I feel it so much. It was the same thing, the imposition of a religious doctrine. Eleven teenage boys were accused of having homosexual thoughts and they were castrated medically without the knowledge of their parents. It was the same thing and it should be stamped out.