Jillian van Turnhout (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----and shall, as far as practicable, by its laws protect and vindicate those rights. For me, this is a very specific case. Leading up to the referendum I felt at last we were no longer saying to children to sit and wait in the corner, as it were, because we were going to deal with the adult stuff first, sort our lives out first and make children wait. We were dealing with these problems whether it was looking at adoption law, information and tracing, the mother and baby homes or historical abuse.

Do we say we had a chance here in the Seanad or do we want to wait to see the scarred lives that people will have? I spoke to social workers today and told them the amendments that I was putting forward on behalf of children. They said that was brilliant because people like them in the mental health services are getting the repercussions of this issue not being dealt with and of a blind eye being turned. That is what we are dealing with.