Today’s publication of the Conal Devine and Resilience Ireland reports after years of repeated legal blockages is a vital step towards finding out who is responsible for what happened to Grace and other vulnerable children who were in State care.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has confirmed that two reports into the ‘Grace’ foster home sex abuse scandal will be published this month.

Senior child protection staff in the ‘Grace’ foster home sex abuse scandal have yet to be risk assessed or moved from their positions because legal red tape is preventing the HSE from “inappropriately” identifying them.

The HSE whistleblower who uncovered the foster care abuse scandal has held a “lengthy, constructive, and positive” meeting with HSE director general Tony O’Brien in a bid to ensure the issue is finally addressed.

The HSE’s most senior official has said “only a complete fool” would believe the serious abuse claims against a Waterford foster family are not being repeated elsewhere after revealing he expects multiple law suits over the case.