Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 September 2021
548. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education the funding allocated to the residential institutions redress scheme; the number of applications approved and paid to date; the average payment; the number of ineligible applications; the number of applications refused; and the number of applications withdrawn, in tabular form. [42221/21]
View answer549. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education the funding allocated to the residential institutions redress scheme for administrative purposes including staffing, legal and premises costs. [42222/21]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 548 and 549 together.
The Residential Institutions Redress Board was established under the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 to make awards to persons who, as children, were abused while resident in industrial schools, reformatories and other institutions subject to state regulation or inspection. The Residential Institutions Redress Board no longer has the power to accept new applications since the 16th September 2011. At this stage the Redress Board is in wind-down mode having completed processing all applications and applicant costs.
Since inception the administrative costs of the scheme up to December 2020 paid by my Department is € 73.8 M which includes the administrative costs of both the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Review Committee.
Overall expenditure on the Scheme is in the order of € 1.245 billion.
As of December 2020, the following is the position -
|
Total number of awards made by the Redress Board |
15,594 |
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Average award |
€62,247 |
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No. of applications withdrawn, refused or resulting in a nil or no award |
1,069 |
The total paid for Applicant legal and associated costs up to December 2020 is € 194 million.
More detailed data is contained the Redress Board’s Annual Reports.
www.rirb.ie/annualReport.asp
