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Fri 06 Jun 2010Curtain slips on routine dysfunction in the HSE
A court ruling allows a glimpse at the usually secret injustices carried out by executive in the name of child protection, writes JOHN WATERS
ALTHOUGH WE have heard many shocking things about the HSE, the suspicion remains that this organisation’s greatest misdeeds are not amenable to exposure. From communications I receive from citizens who have had the misfortune to fall foul of the HSE in the area of what is called child protection, I would say that by far the greatest abuses occur in this context. Most of the time, secrecy provisions make this impossible to demonstrate.
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