Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:54 pm on 21 January 2020.
Absolutely. We've heard in this Chamber the transposition of what's happened in Ireland. One prosecution. That's all it's resulted in. And how many investigations? How much time and effort by the social services have been involved in the many cases that must have been coming forward to them—the cost of all that when they should be investigating much more serious areas of abuse of children?
We know that in this country, whether we like it or not, there is a risk-averse culture within our social services. That's why we see children taken into care where they should never have been taken into care, because of the over zealousness, often, of social services, and that's exactly what we will get with this Bill at a huge cost to this country.