CONFUSION reigns over the timescale for the publication of the Hynes Report into the abuse of children with intellectual disabilities in institutions run by the Brothers of Charity in Galway.

SUFFICIENT legislation existed to protect the children at the centre of the Roscommon case, but the state failed to use it, Fine Gael has claimed.

A SURVIVOR of the house of horrors in which tragic schoolgirl Kelly Fitzgerald was abused says she has been abandoned by the State since her sister died.