• Home
  • Contact
  • US Envoy
    • Undocumented Irish
  • Biography
  • Memorial
  • Recent
  • Data Privacy Policy
John Deasy T.D.

PAC 2015-16

Southeast foster home abuse allegations

11/6/2015

0 Comments

 
John Deasy commented on foster home allegations
PAC Meeting | June 11, 2015

PRELUDE [Extract]
Chairman [John McGuinness TD]:  Item 3A.4 is correspondence, dated 5 June 2015, from Mr. Jim Breslin, Secretary General of the Department of Heath, regarding an investigation into abuse of people with disabilities in a foster home in the south east. 

It is to be noted and published . . .  There are HSE issues regarding the foster home that was being investigated. I express my absolute dismay that the gardaí who have come back to me directly have said that there may not be prosecutions owing to insufficient evidence and so on. I find it absolutely appalling and it needs to be discussed again by the committee.

In the course of the replies from the HSE there are issues about those who were employed to investigate and the committee needs to revisit the matter. The correspondence mentions that the HSE spends €40 million on legal fees and we need to investigate that.
 
Deputy John Deasy: 
The committee has dealt with the foster home issue. We need to remember that the Garda investigated all this in the early 1990s and no prosecutions resulted. The fear I and other committee members had was that it would be repeated. 

For that reason there was an imperative on Government to take the review or investigation process very seriously. That was what the committee was asking the Government to do. I believe the Government is about to make a definitive decision not only on the course of action the Department will take, but also on the policy issues that arise from the contents of the report we will submit to it. 

Perhaps we should hold off for a week or so. I always had the fear, which I expressed, as, I believe, did the Chairman, that it was going to be very difficult for the Garda because of the timeline involved and because most of the individuals who were affected were non-verbal. Some of the people involved have died since these issues arose. However, we need to wait a little longer because those decisions are being made right now.
 
Chairman: That is why I am saying we will revisit this batch of correspondence, which covers a considerable amount of ground.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Meetings 2015-16

    Archives

    March 2016
    February 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

    Fast finder

    All
    1916
    2016
    Abolition
    Abuse
    Abuse Allegations
    Agriculture
    Aidan O'Driscoll
    Air Service
    Allegations
    Alleged Abuse
    AmCHam
    American Chamber
    Anglo Irish Bank
    An Post
    Ansbacher
    Apple
    Aran Islands
    ASEAN Countries
    BEPS
    Bord Bia
    Brendan Howlin
    Broadband
    Budget 2015
    Bunmahon
    Business
    Carer's Allowance
    Carlow
    Carlow IT
    Catherine Murphy
    CDETB
    Central Bank
    Children
    Collective Bargaining
    Commerce
    Communications
    Competitiveness
    Comptroller And Auditor General
    Comptroller And Auditor Generall
    Conal Devine Report
    Contracts
    Cork IT
    Council Services
    Criminal Justice
    Dairy Sector
    Department Of Agriculture
    Department Of Arts
    Department Of Education
    Department Of Finance
    Department Of Foreign Affairs
    Department Of Health
    Department Of Justice
    Department Of Social Protection
    Derek Moran
    Digital
    Director Of Corporate Enforcement
    Disability Allowance
    Double Irish
    Dublin
    Dungarvan
    Dunmore East
    Easter Rising
    EATR
    EC
    Ecommerce
    Education
    ERDF
    ESRI
    EU
    European Commission
    European Investment Bank
    FDI
    FIS
    Fishery Harbours
    Fishery Hatbour Centres
    Fishing
    Foster Care
    Foster Home
    Frank Daly
    Fraud
    Garda
    Garda Commissioner
    Gardaí
    Garda Síochána
    Garda Síochána
    Government Procurement
    Grants
    Gulf States
    Hanoi
    Harbour
    HEA
    Health
    Health Service Executive
    Heritage And The Gaeltacht
    Higher Education Authority
    HMRC
    Ho Chi Minh City
    Howth
    HSBC
    HSE
    HSE Contracts
    IBEC
    IBRC
    IDA
    Industrial Relations Act
    Invalidity Pension
    Investment
    Irish Embassy
    Irish Language
    Irish Postmasters Union
    ISIF
    IT Carlow
    Jim Breslin
    Joe Costello
    Joe Duffy
    Joe Hamill
    John Deasy
    John McGuinness
    John Sculley
    Justice
    Kathleen Lynch
    Kerry Group
    Kill
    Killybegs
    Kilmainham
    KPMG
    Labour Court
    Lazards
    Local Authorities
    Local Government
    London
    Marine
    Mark Griffin
    Martin Shanahan
    Merger
    Michael Kelly
    Milk Quotas
    Minister For Health
    Multinationals
    NAMA
    National Broadband Plan
    Niall Cody
    Niamh O'Donoghue
    Noel Waters
    Northern Ireland
    ODCE
    OECD
    Official Languages Bill
    PAC
    Passage East
    PER
    Phil Hogan
    Pig Farmer
    PIMCO
    Postal
    Prime Time
    Procurement
    Project Eagle
    Public Accounts Committee
    Public Procurement
    Public Services Card
    Resilience Ireland
    Revenue
    Revenue Commissioners
    Robert Watt
    Rural Ireland
    Secretary General
    Section 39 Bodies
    Shanghai
    Simon Coveney
    Siteserv
    SIU
    Social Protection
    Social Welfare
    Social Workers
    South East
    Special Investigations Unit
    Special Liquidators
    State Ports
    Stock Exchange
    Strategic Investment Fund
    SUSI
    Switzerland
    Tax Avoidance
    Taxman
    Technological University
    Tendering
    Tenders
    Tom Galvin
    Town Councils
    Trade
    Tralee IT
    Translation
    UK
    United States
    University
    US Congress
    VEC
    Vietnam
    War Of Independence
    Waterford
    Waterford Institute Of Technology
    Waterford IT
    Waterford Memorial
    West Waterford
    Whistleblower
    Whistleblowers
    WIT
    World Bank

JOHN DEASY TD

  • Constituency Office 35, O'Connell Street, Dungarvan, Co Waterford
  • Phone 058-43003​
  • Email john.deasy@oireachtas.ie

Back to Top

  • Home
  • Contact
  • US Envoy
    • Undocumented Irish
  • Biography
  • Memorial
  • Recent
  • Data Privacy Policy