Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: “We know this is part of our history, where church, State and powerful interests together just brushed things over in…”

That report is intended to examine the scale of the issue," Ms Carroll MacNeill said, adding she wants health, transport and road policy to align on addressing the situation and that if young people saw "the impact of an acquired brain…

It will give the men an opportunity to have their voice heard, if they weren't in the criminal justice process, if they weren't in a civil case, if they have never had the chance to have their truth told.

It was a whole society that enabled that, as is the case in so many other powerful situations where people have been abusing children and protected by society.

This scheme offers people a helping hand, lessens stigma and will offer a second chance.