‘State failing to protect children from predators’

THE Government has been accused of paying lip-service to the report on clerical abuse in Dublin while failing to protect children from today’s predators.

Fine Gael’s spokesman Alan Shatter said the Government was prepared to “ride the wave of outrage” but had still not managed to introduce a law that allows agencies to exchange soft information on potential abusers.

He said it had not empowered the Health Service Executive to appropriately intervene when children were in danger and this was opening the door for abusers.