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One of the worst acts that this government has done is said that it will cover much of the catholic’s church’s cost in clerical sex abuse compensation deals with the liability of the catholic church being capped at 128 million euros. While we the people who did little wrong will possibly be forced to pay 15 billion or just over €3500 per man women and child. Why could they not do what they do in America and make them pay for their crimes like everyone else who is not a religions has to. Are any parties talking about this?
No, no-one is likely to talk about it either. It’s a disgrace in what should be a secular state.
Well the people who were abused were placed in the care of the state, not the church. The state just couldn’t be bothered to build and run its own schools, so it hired a third party to do it. These were our public schools. The children were attending in compliance with the law of the land. If the state did not vet the teachers, if it did not put in place safeguards whereby such abuse could be detected, then the state is liable.
Where the RCC broke its contract with the state, it should be held liable. Otherwise, it would be unfair to have the entire organisation foot the bill because of the actions of a few.
The argument would be, that because the state put this people in the church’s care and did nothing to oversee these insitutions, that it was a failing of the state.
Even if one accepts that there is some State obligation, the structure of the deal was terrible. The church should not be completely off the hook as it is now. It should have been cost-sharing instead of a cap. The cap was essentially a retroactive indemnity for the Church once they’d paid the initial amount. One problem is that the deal goes back to the 1st government and so is an especially difficult to revisit now. Even though it encapsulates the tendency of Bertieism to have used the easy money days to deal with problems by throwing money at them. I wonder if a little bit of the Albert Reynolds lingering resentment at Bertie is Albert’s view that Bertie just skated around the whole abuse problem while a related issue brought down Albert’s government.