AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
Patrick Caruana
AAP
April 04, 2013
THE royal commission into institutional child abuse should be given the time and money it needs to do its job, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.
At the commission’s first hearing, chairman Justice Peter McClellan said the inquiry would be unlikely to meet its deadlines because of the volume of evidence and the scope of the terms of reference.
The commission was due to provide an interim report by the middle of next year and complete its work before the end of 2015, Justice McClellan said on Wednesday.
Justice McClellan said the commission, which has so far cost $22 million, would continue to require “very significant sums of public money”.
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