What a country. The Priests screw the children and the lawyers screw the State. Why not send an invoice to the Vatican Bank?

Pity the legal or medical profession didnt speak up years ago about the abuse and bring a few cases to court.
Oops, sorry forgot we were talking about the legal profession, most victims wouldnt have had enough filthy lucre to entice a solicitor to uphold the law. But when the legal profession saw that the state was involved it means a huge payout for them and all of a sudden they suddenly saw the need for peoples rights to be uphelf

Holy Shite, have we lost our marbles or what, paying the church to defend itself for raping and murdering children in their care……. I thought that the Family Courts were the most corrupt are of law and Now this…. UNBELIEVABLE… We need to sieze all their assets to make them pay for their sins NOT TO PAY THEIR WAY

Could we discover how much the government has paid to the legal profession over the past 5 years? Can the state afford to pay this? The religious communities have not paid their agreed share of the victims compensation. Surely the state should hold off payment of their legal costs until they do.

It gives me a warm feeling inside to know that our government is protecting our pedophiles wealth, just because The Catholic Church is one of the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owners in existence, it shouldn’t be expected to pick up it’s own legal fees because a couple of generations of children were raped and abused and had there childhood stolen! And I thought humanity had died

The Vatican should be made sell off assets and pay this bill themselves, it’s such a farce, the biggest and most powerful state body for generations abuse children on a mega scale, enable it to carry on by covering it up, and moving these bastards from parish to parish, and now the state bail them out by paying their legal fees, what message is this giving to the victims and their families. The pope is head of the catholic church the book stops with him,. send him the invoice!

No, No, No, No, Noooooooooooooooo….what else can one say?

disgusting, every church in the country should be seized by the government like the premises of any other business would. to think that even 1 cent of my tax money could be aiding these perverts makes me sick.

I really have to stop reading the news…….

Wrong, wrong… so very wrong. It’s a pity we can’t send in CAB. Make the vatican sell some of its art and gold or just raid their bank accounts.

This is like saying to the abusers, it’s ok, you didn’t do anything wrong. Then turning around to the abused and saying, ‘it’s your fault’!

Send the bill to:
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI PP.
00120 Via del Pellegrino
Citta del Vaticano
Italia

If bank accounts of known criminal and terrorist organisations can be frozen and seized why can’t the Vaticans bank accounts held in Irish banks if there are any be seized?

Why have the commission, in the 1st place, let the Gardai do there job and send all involved to prison, the priests that abused and the bishops that shielded them.

this is getting pathetic, the government doesnt has the balls to go after those involved in the abuse and the ensuing cover up via the legal system. So what do we get, another commission that the government can spin to make themselves look like they are doing something but by the endgame is a piece of paper with recommendations and opinions. The only people to benefit are the lawyers involved

enough of the government using this to crank there popularity amongst the public, get the cops after the guilty priests and bishops and get this SORTED. No more commissions and no more theater.

This news story is a prime example of what went wrong and what continues to be wrong in this country. Yet nothing changes. We moan and complain to Joe Duffy and twitter and the journal and elect a new government. But yet nothing really changes. Only in Ireland could we read the Vatican the riot act and yet pay their legal bill. It would be comical were it not for the tragedy before it.

Disgusting – absolutely disgusting. Rome should be paying.

How many wards and operations would 50 million pay for in Crumlins Childrens Hospital! Disgraceful. Once again the religion crap in this country get away with coughing up and paying for their crimes.

€57million in legal fees paid mostly to the religious orders whose members committed most of the crimes? WHY is the government ie YOUR TAXES paying for the legal costs of the perpetrators? Only in Ireland! This would not happen in any other country on the planet. It’s absurd, they (the orders) should have to pay their own legal costs, None of this would be happening if the filthy brutal thugs who were in these orders had not committed the vile crimes they did. This is an insult to every decent man, woman and child in the country, that their taxes are now being used to defend the pedophiles and abusers and to pay for the delaying tactics employed by the catholic church and the various orders by means of the legal system. The legal firms are raking it in whilst the victims are once again being screwed and this time the whole country is being screwed by these so called religious orders. Once again the former Fianna Fail govt. have left the Irish tax payer with yet another bill, Bertie Ahern was in charge when this agreement to pay the orders legal costs was agreed, seeing as he is so keen to publicise himself these last couple of weeks can we pleas have some answers from him as to why his govt. agreed to this ludicrous arangement which is now costing the Irish taxpayer so much in a time when the country is broke!

W H Y ????????????????????????????????????

Because few Catholics get to be ordained a priest, as I was, they can’t know the half of their church’s problems, as I show at a site that anyone can find by Googling “JesusWouldBeFurious” (one word)

Good, we need to look after our priests. They deserve at least this plus compensation