Section 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, in November 2004, I signed an order for a further 13 institutions to be added to the Schedule. I have made arrangements for a list of the institutions concerned to be forwarded directly to the Deputy.
As the religious ethos of an institution was not part 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, from records held in my Department, there are five institutions listed as having had a Protestant ethos and I am arranging for relevant details to be also forwarded to the Deputy.