School ownership should transfer to State, says Quinn [IrishTimes]
- Published: 18 April 2010
REDRESS BOARDS: RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS should transfer legal ownership of their schools and educational infrastructure to the State, Labour education spokesman Ruairí Quinn has said.
This way they would fully share the costs of the institutional redress boards, without further financial burdens on their ageing communities, he said at the Labour party conference in Galway.
Mr Quinn told delegates the 18 religious congregations were only paying 10 per cent of the current €1.3 billion cost of the institutional redress boards, established to compensate the victims of abuse while under State care in religious-run institutions.
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