Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2025-06-19
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Victor Boyhan (IND), Agricultural Panel

What I would say, because it is my intention to pursue it, is that there should be an audit and an investigation. I do not know if that is the Committee of Public Accounts or if it has that remit - I do not know that yet - but I certainly will be looking for it and I ask the Minister to promote the idea. Accountability is really important with regard to the administration of any funds, be they public or private or religious or non-religious. Therefore, there will clearly have to be an assessment of how that money was applied, what it was used for and the level of money that was used on administration versus support for victims of abuse. I am not asking for a response today because it involves figures, and I know the Minister does not want to tie herself up in knots about something on which she would not have the up-to-date detail. I am, however, committing myself now to pursuing an agenda to have a complete audit of all figures from Caranua through the appropriate independent mechanisms that are open to us.

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Sitting date: 2025-06-19