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Sat 05 May 2009Rabbitte says church-State deal was negligent
COMPENSATION DEAL:FORMER Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte has described the government’s 2002 agreement with religious orders that they would pay a maximum of €127 million to compensate child abuse victims as a “negligent deal” and seriously inadequate.
Mr Rabbitte said the controversial deal between then minister for education Dr Michael Woods and the religious congregations was a secretive, surreptitious “ready-up” that was disproportionate to the depths of the crimes inflicted against children in church-run institutions.
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