I want the skin pulled off this pudding.

- The then minister for education, Donough O'Malley, to a member of the Kennedy committee established to examine the State's industrial schools in 1968.

In their work, they (the committee) received little assistance. The behaviour of many managers and officials has been described to me as at best silently obstructive.

- The Minister for Education, Mr Martin.

The committee's impression of Daingean reformatory school was of a dismal place which should be closed as soon as possible.

- Mr Martin.