Seanad debates

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage

 

12:00 pm

Photo of Ruairi QuinnRuairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

The religious orders were 50% complicit in the abuse to which Senator Heffernan referred but so were the rest of us. Civil servants examined those places and saw what was going on but they did not report it. Why did they not report it? Why was the predominant culture of Catholic Ireland in the 1950s-----

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