Cabinet to get report into foster care abuse

The long-delayed Government report into serious foster abuse in the south-east is set to go before Cabinet tomorrow after the final legal hurdles blocking its publication were overcome.

The Irish Examiner understands Disabilities Minister Finian McGrath will bring the report to the ministerial meeting tomorrow morning after discussing the publication with Department of Health officials today — clearing the way for a promised State inquiry into the scandal.

The report, by independent senior counsel Conor Dignam, was first commissioned by former Labour TD and Department of Health junior minister Kathleen Lynch 16 months ago to examine serious foster abuse allegations in the south-east.