Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 January 2022
744. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education if survivors had to have been in receipt of an award from the Residential Institutions Redress Board to qualify to apply to Caranua for redress; the reason the total awards paid through Caranua are 57,161 and through the Residential Institutions Redress Board only 16,657 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63563/21]
View answerUnder the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012, Caranua could provide supports to individuals who had either received an award of redress from the Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) or a similar court award or settlement.
The 2012 Act provided that Caranua could provide supports in areas such as health, housing and education, and applicants could make multiple applications to Caranua under each of these various headings. Each applicant could therefore receive multiple payments from Caranua.
Since its establishment, Caranua received over 62,000 applications for funding supports from over 6,000 eligible survivors and made over 57,000 payments to survivors totalling almost €98 million.
