AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Sarah Farnsworth
Updated February 22, 2016
The child abuse royal commission has announced it is trying to find a suitable location in Rome to allow abuse survivors to be present when Cardinal George Pell gives evidence next week.
A group of survivors has been pushing to be allowed to hear Cardinal Pell’s evidence in person, after he was given permission to give evidence via video link from Rome due to ill health.
Commissioner Justice Peter McClellan told the third public hearing sitting in Ballarat it was a “reasonable” request.
He told the inquiry a suitable hotel room in central Rome had been located and tests would be carried out to ensure the hearing could be video linked back to Sydney.
He added if that room was not suitable, another location would be found.
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