Religious orders willing to meet Quinn on redress costs [IrishTimes]
- Published: 07 July 2011
A NUMBER of religious congregations have signalled their willingness to meet Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn to discuss redress costs for victims of clerical sexual abuse.
However, the Dominican Order said yesterday it believed it had already made an “appropriate contribution” towards compensation costs. Earlier this week Mr Quinn said the Government intends to ask religious orders to transfer ownership of schools to the State to make up a shortfall in its contribution to the €1.36 billion compensation bill for abuse victims.
Representatives from the Brothers of Charity, the Presentation Brothers and the Christian Brothers all said yesterday they were looking forward to meeting the Minister to discuss their contributions to the redress scheme.
To date the congregations have collectively offered €348.5 million towards the cost of the redress bill. This is just over half the €680 million fee recommended in the Ryan report and equivalent to a quarter of the total cost of the compensation scheme.
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