Fresh queries raised over health board failures in Roscommon case

NEW questions over the failure of health board staff to intervene in the Roscommon abuse case emerged yesterday, including why recommendations dating from 1996 have yet to be implemented.

Fresh  queries raised over health board failures in Roscommon case

In a statement yesterday Fine Gael justice spokesman Alan Shatter raised a number of issues he said were not addressed in the report on the case, published earlier this week.

Mr Shatter said: “There were specific recommendations contained in the report published in 1996 into the death of Kelly Fitzgerald, as a consequence of the failures of the same health board that, if implemented, would have ensured the Roscommon children would have been taken into care at a much earlier stage and may not have become victims of barbaric sexual abuse.

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