Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 November 2004
447 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of non-Catholic institutions that have been listed in the schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 including the recent additions; the religious denominations of each such institution; the number of institutions that belonged to the State exclusively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28707/04]
View answerSection 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides that in order for an institution to be placed on the Schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002, the facility must have been subject to inspection or regulation by a public body. A total of 128 institutions are listed on the original Schedule to the Act and I recently signed an order for a further 13 institutions to be added to the Schedule. As the religious ethos of an institution was not one of the criteria prescribed under section 4 of the Act, my Department did not require full details of the religious ethos of all the institutions listed. However, based on records held in my Department, 19 institutions on the Schedule were non-Catholic run facilities, of which one was multi-denominational, 13 were State-run and five had a Protestant ethos.
448 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Education and Science if the industrial school at Upton, County Cork and its adjoining lands have been sold; if the proceeds of such a sale have gone or will go towards defraying the contribution of the religious orders to the redress fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28708/04]
View answerThe former industrial school referred to by the Deputy at Upton, County Cork, is the property of the Rosminian Institute of Charity. A portion of that property was offered to the State by that congregation as part of the indemnity agreement signed in 2002. The State accepted that portion. The Southern Health Board is the transferee and it is arranging for the legal transfer to take place. I have no information as to whether the Rosminian Institute of Charity has sold other portions of the land or buildings formerly attached to the industrial school.
