Olwyn Enright
Question:261 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the criteria which have to be satisfied before he will add a school to the schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002. [17613/03]
Written Answers. - Residential Institutions Redress Board.
The Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 was introduced to provide financial redress to people who as children suffered abuse in residential institutions for which public bodies had certain responsibilities in relation to their inspection and regulation. Section 4(1) of the Act outlines the criteria to be used in making a decision to include additional institutions. This section provides for the insertion of, by order, any industrial school, reformatory school, orphanage, children's home, special school which was established for the purpose of providing education services to children with a physical or intellectual disability or a hospital providing medical or psychiatric services to people with a physical or mental disability or mental illness in which children were placed and resident and in respect of which a public body had a regulatory or inspection function.
My Department, in consultation with other Departments and interested parties, is currently examining the number of institutions which may be eligible for inclusion in the Schedule.
Olwyn Enright
Question:262 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science when he will make an order adding additional schools to the schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002. [17614/03]
Officials in my Department are consulting with other Departments and other interested parties in order to ascertain the eligibility of a number of proposed institutions. On completion of this process, the eligible institutions that are identified can then be included in the Schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002. It is my intention that an order listing a number of additional institutions will be laid before each of the Houses of the Oireachtas for approval in the autumn.