Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill says she hopes a Commission of Investigation will uncover why abuse linked to the Shine organisation was not stopped. Across reports, she is described as expecting the inquiry to clarify failures in oversight and accountability that allowed allegations of child abuse to continue. The Irish Times notes that a former surgeon convicted of assaulting nine boys is also accused of abusing hundreds of others, placing the alleged scale of wrongdoing beyond the cases that have been proven in court. The reports frame the minister’s comments as linked to the purpose of the Commission of Investigation: to examine circumstances surrounding the abuse and determine why relevant concerns, complaints, or warnings were not acted upon sooner. While the outlets emphasise different aspects of the story, they align on the central point that the minister is calling for the inquiry to provide answers about how the abuse went unchecked. The coverage does not attribute specific blame to any individual beyond pointing to systemic and oversight questions the Commission is expected to address.