The Special Commission of
Inquiry into matters relating to the Police investigation of certain
child sexual abuse allegations in the Catholic Diocese of
Maitland-Newcastle won't hand down its findings until next year,
according to an AAP report in The Newcaslte Herald.
The inquiry opened in February and was due to report to the
government by September 30.
But Premier Barry O'Farrell has told
question time in the NSW Parliament that Commissioner Margaret Cunneen
had sought an extension and would report on February 28 next year.
'We should all agree that it is obviously more important that the
relevant matters are properly and thoroughly investigated,' he said. 'No
one wants any shortcuts when it comes into matters as serious as
these.'
Mr O'Farrell said the inquiry had more than a hundred private
hearings with more than a hundred summons to produce its documents.
