IRELAND
Irish Independent
Maeve Sheehan
PUBLISHED
31/01/2016
Religious orders have contributed less than a sixth of the €1.46bn cost of compensating the former residents of children’s homes and residential institutions who suffered physical and sexual abuse, as the redress scheme winds down.
Eighteen orders of nuns and religious brothers who ran the schools on behalf of the State committed to paying a total of €480m to the cost of the scheme, but have so far contributed a package of property and cash worth €211m.
The State has paid close to €1bn in compensation
The contributions are far short of the €750m or 50:50 share that the Government promised in its programme for government to make the religious orders contribute.
The religious orders originally agreed to contribute €128m in cash and property towards the scheme in 2002 in an indemnity agreement with the State.
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