IRELAND
RTE News
27 October 2005 12:56
The Tánaiste and Minister for Health has clarified how further investigations into the handling of child sex abuse by the Catholic Church will progress.
This follows Tuesday's publication of the Ferns Report into the handling of allegations of clerical sexual abuse in the Wexford diocese.
Replying to Labour Leader Pat Rabbite, Mary Harney said that the Minister of State for Children is in discussions with the Minister for Justice on the establishment of a new commission of inquiry.
It is likely that module one of that inquiry will be an examination of current practices in all dioceses to ensure that protections now in place in Ferns are also in effect countrywide.