Watch: Emotional McGuinness slams HSE officials as 'criminals'

'There were people found locked under the stairs, there were children in outhouses. Nothing was done'

In a powerful contribution, Kilkenny TD and Oireachtas Finance Committee chairman John McGuinness said despite clear evidence of abuse, nobody charged with Grace's care spoke out.

HSE officials who knew the intellectually disabled woman known as 'Grace' was sexually abused and did nothing about it “are criminals and should be prosecuted,” the Dáil has heard.