IRELAND
Irish Times
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has recommended that the State intervene and work with all Catholic dioceses in the Republic to ensure children are properly protected in each.
It recommends “that the State applies its resources to intervene and work with all dioceses in a systematic way to address the shortcomings outlined” in an audit it published this afternoon.
The Audit of Safeguarding Arrangements in the Catholic Church in Ireland, deals with 24 Catholic dioceses which, wholly or in part, are in the Republic. Two further Catholic dioceses are entirely in Northern Ireland.
Today’s publication is Volume I of the audit. Another volume, dealing with the religious congregations, will be published at a later date.
Covering the period to the end of November 2011, it found “significant weaknesses” in a number of dioceses in the State in the area of child protection.
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