Children in care - We have not learned from past abuses

If Government promises were enough to resolve our problems, we would probably have no problems, because the current Government has never been short on promises.

The problem is that so many of the promises are as empty and useless as the task force set up to tackle unemployment.

This time last year, following the publication of the Ryan Report which chronicled years of systemic abuse in state-supervised institutions run by religious orders from the 1930s to the 1990s, the Government pledged to distributed €2 million between support groups to provide counselling services for survivors.