IRELAND
RTE News
The Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald, has said legislation to put child protection guidelines on a statutory footing is being finalised and would leave no doubt over the responsibilities of organisations and individuals.
She was responding to the publication of a report by the Vatican on the sexual abuse of children in the Irish Catholic Church.
The report, which was compiled following visits here by teams of Vatican-appointed foreign church-leaders, has acknowledged failures and said lessons have been learned.
Christine Buckley, an abuse survivor, said she would have liked to have seen an apology to victims, as well as more detail than a summary report.
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