Galway News
May 28, 2009
http://www.galwaynews.ie/7647-bishops-silent-calls-reopen-abuse-victims039-compo-scheme
GALWAY'S two Catholic Bishops have declined to publicly row in behind many of their Hierarchical colleagues who this week said the controversial 2002 Church/State redress deal to compensate
the victims of sex abuse in residential institutions run by religious orders should be revisited.
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| Bishops decline to comment |
Archbishop of Tuam, Dr Michael Neary –who is the current head of the Diocese that includes the Christian Brothers' School, Letterfrack and Sisters of Mercy Industrial School, Clifden – said, through a spokesperson, that the issue of reopening negotiations on a new redress deal or any other new compensation scheme for victims was a matter for Conference of Religious of Ireland (Cori). Bishop of Galway, Dr Martin Drennan – who is the current head of the Diocese that includes the Christian Brothers' Industrial School in Salthill – said, also through a spokesperson, that Cori needed, "to be
given space to see howtheywill approach and decide what they will do next".
Archbishop Neary and Bishop Drennan both issued statements in response to lastweek's Ryan Report which was published after a nine-year investigation and found that rape and sexual molestation were endemic in Irish Catholic church-run industrial schools and orphanages including three Galway schools.
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