Child Abuse
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-11
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

I just got off the phone with a lovely man in his 70s. Let us call him Stephen. He was absolutely savagely abused when he was nine years old and for quite a while. It is only recently, now that he is in his 70s, that he has been able to acknowledge the damage that was done to him. He wants to know when this investigation is going to be established so that he can tell his story. He also wants to know whether people like him, whose lives were affected for their rest of their lives, will get redress for the savage abuse they suffered at school.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-11