1 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if he regards it as appropriate for a health board to invoke the Statute of Limitations in civil actions in which it is alleged that a health board was negligent in providing protection for children at risk; if he will issue a direction to each health board in the State not to invoke this statute in these cases; if he will arrange for the holding of an independent inquiry into the manner in which a family (details supplied) was treated by the North-Western Health Board in the period from 1978 to 1993 and that the terms of reference of any inquiry include a consideration of the legal strategy adopted by the health board in the court proceedings brought against it and the failure of the Department of Health and Children in the period from 1978 to 1993 to ensure that guidelines issued by it on child abuse comprehensively prescribed the appropriate steps to be taken by health boards in providing proper protection to children at risk. [2257/98]

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1 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if he regards it as appropriate for a health board to invoke the Statute of Limitations in civil actions in which it is alleged that a health board was negligent in providing protection for children at risk; if he will issue a direction to each health board in the State not to invoke this statute in these cases; if he will arrange for the holding of an independent inquiry into the manner in which a family (details supplied) was treated by the North-Western Health Board in the period from 1978 to 1993 and that the terms of reference of any inquiry include a consideration of the legal strategy adopted by the health board in the court proceedings brought against it and the failure of the Department of Health and Children in the period from 1978 to 1993 to ensure that guidelines issued by it on child abuse comprehensively prescribed the appropriate steps to be taken by health boards in providing proper protection to children at risk. [2257/98]

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