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	Orders Irate at "Too Few" Committals By Dearbhail Mcdonald Irish Independent May 22, 2009 http://www.independent.ie/national-news/orders-irate-at-too-few-committals-1747688.html RELIGIOUS orders complained bitterly to government departments that judges were sending too few children to industrial schools, threatening their economic viability, writes Dearbhail McDonald. They even implored former Justice Minister, the late Brian Lenihan, to investigate judges' unwillingness to incarcerate children after expressing their disquiet "at the set up in the Children's Court" which sent more than 30,000 children to industrial schools and reformatories. A special report compiled for the Ryan Commission by David Gwynn Morgan, a leading academic lawyer, has revealed there were "flash points" between industrial schools and the State over the "deplorable" reluctance of some District Court judges to commit children to institutions. The orders complained as recently as the 1960s that court committals were far too short a period "for any good to be done".
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