IRELAND
One in Four
By Harry McGee - Irish Examiner
THE Government will today publish legislation designed to prevent protracted hearings in the Commission Inquiring into Child Abuse.
Education Minister Mary Hanafin yesterday announced the bill which she intends to have enacted before the summer.
The bill will remove the obligation on the commission’s Investigation Committee to hold a full hearing into each and every allegation of abuse referred to it. Instead, the 1,300 complainants will have the opportunity to be interviewed by the committee.
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