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	Belfast Mayor Meets Clerical Abuse Victims RTE News July 5, 2011 http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0705/abuse.html Abuse victims in Northern Ireland have said inquiries into institutional abuse 'should not have stopped at the border'. Members of the group, Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse, were speaking today as they met Belfast Lord Mayor Niall Ó Donnghaile at the site of the former children's home, Nazareth House, on the Ormeau Road. The group is calling for an independent public inquiry and for the establishment of a redress process. The group said today's meeting with the Sinn Féin mayor was 'another step on the road to justice'. Survivor Margaret McGuckin said it was time for past wrongs to be 'put right'. She said her own experience of Nazareth House 'had been truly awful' and said she had been 'traumatised' by the experience. Last December, a taskforce was set up by the Executive in a bid to establish whether there is a basis for an inquiry into institutional abuse in Northern Ireland. It has been consulting with victims' groups and recently reported back its findings. Amnesty International's Patrick Corrigan said there was a responsibility on the power sharing administration to deliver an inquiry. He said the issue of institutional abuse has been 'quite rigorously addressed' in the Republic, 'a degree of truth and justice has been delivered' and that a compensation scheme has been put in place. He said victims in Northern Ireland 'who suffered the same conditions' have received 'very little attention' and said that the government has 'not yet properly responded'.
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