Ireland has a long and shameful past legacy of institutional child abuse. Labour has published legislation that would compel any organisation which facilitates abuse, and even covered it up, to pay redress to survivors.
Past experience shows that appeals to the moral duty of religious orders cannot be relied upon. Some of the worst sexual abuse imaginable has been perpetrated against children while in the care of these religious orders. They must pay their share for redress for survivors.
We must not only condemn abuse in all its forms, the theft of innocence, but we must also call it out and ensure that survivors receive the justice they so deserve.