Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 April 2015
152. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was unable to receive financial support from Caranua for life-saving medicine and travel to hospital, a journey of 100 miles from the person's home, in circumstances where the person is unable to use public transport and is living on disability payments. [16024/15]
View answerCaranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to oversee the use of the cash contributions of up to €110 million, pledged by the religious congregations, to support the needs of survivors of institutional child abuse. The determination of criteria and the processing of individual applications are matters for Caranua itself and my officials have requested Caranua to examine the issues raised in the Deputy's question and to reply to her as soon as possible.
