HSE’s ongoing audit attacked as ‘futile exercise’

ONE IN FOUR executive director Maeve Lewis has described the HSE’s ongoing audit of Catholic Archdioceses’ handling of child protection cases as a “futile exercise” as the Ryan and Murphy reports have both shown the Church is incapable of self monitoring.

Minister for Children Barry Andrews has said the Catholic Church is now fully compliant with statutory obligations to notify the HSE about all child protection complaints.

Speaking following the publication of the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation report, he said he was “heartened” by the return of detailed replies to the HSE in July by the bishop in each diocese.