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  That budget is simply mopping up the old cases that are only now coming to light. PaulB has it right: we have only recently allowed ourselves to be appalled by child abuse because we never recognised it. In context historically it becomes easier to see the triggers and understand the background. Ireland was a unique environment for many reasons including economic, historic and social. I would bet that if we scrathched the surface of many countries we would find similar abuses historically, not all attached to religions. The Communists, the USA in the 1940s and 1950s, the Baltics. Nowehere is free of taint, but if we screw up our eyes and squint into the past we might be able to see it a little better.

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