Abuse commission to run until 2008

THE Commission on Child Abuse has been given an extension of three years beyond its current closing date of May 2005, the Government said yesterday.

The Cabinet at its weekly meeting yesterday agreed to grant the extension to 2008, in the wake of a request made by the Commission to the Minister for Education Mary Hanafin.

The request for an extension was conveyed to the Minister by the Commission’s chairman Justice Seán Ryan.