"Grace" scandal - Tusla UNBELIEVABLE!!!

[J.R.R. hartley]

What's the skinny on this case?
Only links in the thread are Irish times ones. I'm not reading that.

 

[Yermon]

What's the skinny on this case?
Only links in the thread are Irish times ones. I'm not reading that.

From Examiner
"The intellectually disabled woman known as ‘Grace’ was placed in the care of foster parents, despite them both having criminal convictions, a State Commission of Investigation has found.

It also highlighted “systemic failings” by the South Eastern Health Board (SEHB) which led to Grace being neglected to a point where she suffered repeated injuries to her body, required “significant dental work” and instances of inappropriate stripping went unreported.

However, the investigation cleared former Health ministers Michael Noonan and Austin Currie over their handling of the case in 1996, after a decision to remove Grace from the home was controversially overturned after the foster father wrote a letter to Mr Noonan."



From across the political divide and beyond there has been a lot of criticism of the latest report by the Farrelly Commission btw. AFAIK the Farrelly Commission did not say why the decision to remove Grace from that awful Foster House wasn't taken. The Health Board wanted her taken away. Even The Brothers of Charity didn't want her to be there, but her captivity there continued and Farrelly doesn't say why. If as claimed the Letters to the Minister which previously were flagged as influential weren't influential, then what/who made the decision she should remain?