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Residential Institutions Redress Scheme

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 26 June 2014

Thursday, 26 June 2014

Questions (77)

Sandra McLellan

Question:

77. Deputy Sandra McLellan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of money that has been paid out by Caranua to survivors since it was established; if he will provide in tabular form the purpose of the payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27596/14]

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I understand from enquiries made by my officials that, by 20th June, Caranua has made 249 payments in respect of 113 individual former residents, to the value of €349,174.33. Caranua approves services across three general areas – Health and General Well-being; Housing Support and Education, Learning and Development. The payments made to date are broken down in the attached table. Full details of the range of services that can be provided for are set out in the information and guidelines published on Caranua's website: http://www.caranua.ie. Caranua normally deals directly with the service providers and payments issue directly to them and only issues payments to former residents on submission of valid receipts with Caranua's prior agreement. The payments made to date include payments made in respect of professional assessments or recommendations which are required by Caranua to determine entitlement to certain services.

Category

No of Payments

No of Former Residents

Value of Payments

Health and General Well-being

126

81

€71,120.75

Housing Support

99

56

€233,958.94

Education, Learning and Development

36

23

€54,094.64

Total

261

113

€359,174.33

Note: As former residents can receive services across service categories, the total number of former residents assisted does not equal the sum of the individual categories.

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