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The Minister for Education is to write to the 18 religious congregations, which ran residential institutions where children were abused, asking them to contribute more towards the €1.2 billion bill for compensating victims.
In 2009, the Ryan Commission published its finding that children put into State care in religious-run residential institutions had suffered systemic abuse.
Then taoiseach Brian Cowen told the congregations concerned they should pay into a Trust Fund the State would establish, amounting to almost €600m – or half the bill incurred by taxpayers in redress to victims.
This was almost €500m more than the settlement the outgoing Bertie Ahern-led government made with the congregations.
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