IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Amnesty International has expressed concern at claims that the Catholic Church’s child protection watchdog is being undermined through funding cuts.
The claims were made by the former chief executive at the National Board for Safeguarding of Children (NBSC), Ian Elliott, who retired last summer.
He said the Catholic Bishops, the Conference of Religious of Ireland and the Irish Missionary Union, which together fund the board, were undermining its work by consistently cutting that funding.
He claimed he had been made to curtail further probes of dioceses, missionary organisations and religious orders by starving investigators of resources.
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