Barry Ward (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge what Senator Bacik said but it is really important to call out what has happened. She is correct that there are people who have been wronged. To be absolutely clear, I am not blaming any of them. There is a cohort of people, including those who have been through the homes, those who were born in the homes and the families and friends of those people, who have endured unimaginable suffering as a result of what happened in this State. None of that is denied and I do not blame any of those people. I blame other parties who have intervened. I can stand over what I am saying because of the more than 5,000 emails on the computer in my office. The vast majority of those emails - some 4,000, I would say - contain exactly the same thing because they came from a website that was generated to allow people to plug into it for that purpose.