Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

After listening to Senator Kelleher giving such a blow-by-blow account of what happened, what I want to know is that, apart from the whistleblowers, are the people whose names were attached to Grace's case for all those years and who turned a blind eye still in the profession because they most definitely should not be. They should be fired. I do not know how anyone in the State is supposed to trust the HSE, Tusla or any Department when people who go into what is supposed to be a caring profession do the complete opposite. Until we weed all of these people out of those systems, we will never get anything right. We need to expand the inquiry into what happened to the 46 other individuals who lived in that home because so many of them have been failed and placed at risk. We need a criminal investigation to run alongside this. Abuse, neglect and the active covering up of voices in this country are endemic. All that this investigation will discover is a cover up and neglect and will show just how inept so many of our broken systems are. Until people are held to account for that, these investigations will be fruitless and will not change anything. Will the Minister of State make sure that anyone in employment who had anything to do with Grace's case is suspended while these investigations are ongoing?