Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2021-01-13
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

The most important action that can be taken is to put the survivors' needs, wishes, feelings, sensitivities and objectives at the centre of this process and to date that has not happened. In fact, they were further insulted with the leak that came out at the weekend. As for being given this report only 24 hours before there is to be an apology, we do not even know what is being apologised for.
I am sorry to say that some of the phrases in the executive summary are unacceptable - they should be withdrawn - in trying to displace blame and responsibility from the institutions of the church and State and somehow disperse them onto something called "society as a whole". There was an element of that in what the Taoiseach stated yesterday and he should apologise for it.
It is not acceptable. These were gross crimes.

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Sitting date: 2021-01-13