Broken promises on change after Ferns Report

What the Government promised after Ferns:

* In 2005, the Government under then taoiseach Bertie Ahern said it would take immediate action to implement the recommendations in the report into allegations of sex abuse in the diocese of Ferns.

This included the introduction of a criminal offence applying to anyone who “wantonly or recklessly engages in conduct that creates a substantial risk of bodily injury or sexual abuse to a child or wantonly or recklessly fails to take reasonable steps to alleviate such risk where there is a duty to act”.