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Fri 05 May 2009Taxpayers pick up the bill while abusers get secrecy and protection
OPINION:The deal making religious orders liable for a mere fraction of the cost of the abuse of children in their care underlines the vulnerability of a State owning so little of its vital social infrastructure, writes MARY RAFTERY
DID YOU know that you and I, as taxpayers, have actually paid to keep secret the identities of the abusers referred to in the Ryan commission report? That’s in addition, of course, to footing over 90 per cent of the estimated €1.3 billion cost to compensate victims of abuse through the Residential Institutions Redress Board.
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