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Sat 06 Jun 2009Gormley seeks child rights referendum
GREEN PARTY leader and Minister for the Environment John Gormley has called for all-party agreement on a referendum on the rights of children as the best monument to the victims of residential abuse.
He was speaking during the second day of the Dáil debate on an all-party motion accepting the recommendations of the Ryan commission into child abuse and acknowledging the pain and suffering endured by the former residents of institutions.
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