The Holy See gets condemned by Mr Kenny, and rightly so. It was a good speech.
But the state also needs to get its house in order I suspect, even if it does a lot of good work. One child being neglected/abused is too much.. trying to prevent it is a fairly monumental task.

Another HSE f**k up. They can squander money on travel expenses, over inflated administration, endless bloody reports upon reports but cannot apportion funds where necessary. So it seems that anyone can put their name down to foster children and the HSE in it’s wisdom places an already at risk child in an unapproved home.
How is this even legal? Surely the government should follow up on this and charges should be brought against those who placed children in unapproved homes. ( not saying all homes may have been unsafe ) however the risk potential is unacceptable.

Two stories here: the report itself and the almost total lack of responses to this article. Children first, eh. …

@Lisa , it compares very much to what the church done , no difference, the HSE have torn families apart for no reason , while they have let the very children down that needed intervention , there are huge benifits to be gained when a social worker both removes a child from his/her parents, and manages to secure an adoption,. thousands of children go missing from “state care” all around the world but little of it is reported by the media , the HSE have taken newborn babies from the arms of mothers in hospitals around the country and placed them for adoption, the mothers crime? maybe she herself was in care, she may be obese, or in one case had a FB account where she uploaded a pic of herself in a bikini, the system is screwed up , children in care are been medicated with Ritalin or as it was known back in the day speed , the system doesnt care about the children , the system cares about its budget and of the many ways it can increase it next year , more abducted children = financial gain for someone….. you know to care for 2 children in ireland in the foster-care-tel you get paid 640euro pweek, plus expenses , nice work if you can get it……, but in the end it will be exposed for what it really is , just like the church……

Well this doesn’t really compare to what the church did but it is pretty messed up all the same. The state are in the process of setting up a vetting service, waiting for Garda clearance just takes too long.

Mr Kenny were you not told that it is dangerous to throw stones when you live in a glass house??? There is more to his anti-Vatican rant than child protection believe me………

I can assure you that it is very easy for Social Services to remove children , i had my children taken from my care because i would not allow them to participate in a school vaccine program , several months after that i again refused that my eldest daughter recieve the Gardisil vaccine , I was accused of endangering my children , oh by the way i also owned a Headshop at the time which was frowned upon by the HSE and the kangarro court judge………… , and when article 42 gets amended next year after the referendum you will see these actions against family’s occuring on a much wider scale , the politicians and the media will as usual direct people to vote yes using lies and propoganda , but in reality if the amendments are passed , what will have been accomplished is the termination of Parental rights in favour of the state , thats right , if passed , this will hand over all decisions regarding the upbringing of your children to the state…….. who have a pretty poor record of looking after children, There are thousands of cases in Ireland and the UK where children have been wrongly removed from the care of their parents just because of some anonymous phonecall from a disgruntled ex, or a mental mother-in-law , there has been a huge increase in the amount of children taken into the care of the irish state over the last couple of years , why? , i suggest reading Christopher Brooker’s columns in the UK Telegraph , or google Jon Hemmings MP , they are highlighting this assault on the family in Britian , its time the system was overhauled , time for the family courts to be open to a jury at the very least and in some cases the press ,