Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: “It was a whole society that enabled that, as is the case in so many other powerful situations where people have been…”

This is of such public significance, and it hasn't been investigated by the State in the way in which it should have been.

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 is important that we see the truth of what happened all along.

We know this is part of our history, where church, State and powerful interests together just brushed things over in ways that were vicious and unhelpful.