Wednesday 29 January 2014 15.07 Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said the Cabinet will discuss the European Court of Human Rights judgment in the Louise O'Keeffe case at its meeting next week.
The court ruled yesterday that the State had failed to meet its obligation to protect Ms O'Keeffe.
She was nine years old when she was abused by teacher Leo Hickey at Dunderrow National School in Co Cork in 1973.
Decades later, Hickey was charged with 386 criminal offences involving 21 former Dunderrow pupils.
He was sentenced to three years in prison in 1998, after pleading guilty to 21 sample charges.
Ms O'Keeffe subsequently took legal action against the Department of Education, arguing that the State had failed to put in place appropriate protection measures to prevent and stop systematic sexual abuse at her school.
However, the High Court dismissed her claim that the State was liable.
The Supreme Court subsequently upheld that ruling, finding that while the State funded the education system, the management role of the Catholic Church was such that the State could not be held vicariously liable for the criminal acts of the teacher.
However, the ECHR found that the state was liable.
Speaking this afternoon, Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton said Ms O'Keefe had conducted herself with extraordinary dignity and courage.
She said that she was glad that Ms O'Keefe has had the outcome that she has had.
Ms Burton said Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn was currently studying the judgment in detail.
She said she wanted to wait to hear what Mr Quinn and Taoiseach Enda Kenny have to say about the judgment before commenting further.
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