Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2025-06-19
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Lynn Ruane (IND), University of Dublin

This is more of a question, so I can come back on Report Stage. If, between now and then, we have gone from €33 million to €50,000, which would hopefully imply that there was a greater ability to access the fund, did the cap continue to apply or were people able to actually access more than the €15,000? What I am thinking now is that there were people before a cap. I know that something like a prioritisation model was put in place at the time rather than applications being dealt with in terms of the needs at the time and the merit of the application. Did a different system exist at different points in time whereby different survivors accessed different sums because a cap existed or did not exist? That is more of a question in case I need to come back to it.

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Sitting date: 2025-06-19