IRELAND
RTE News
Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn has said the State got nowhere in convincing Catholic religious orders to pay for half of the cost of residential abuse claims.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Edition, Mr Quinn said the religious bodies would not accept the principle of 50-50 under the State-backed redress scheme.
He said the State had spent around €1.4bn on legal costs and awards relating to abuse at residential institutions to date.
Mr Quinn said as a result of paying this money out, and the inability to get the Church to contribute an equal share, everything else must be considered when it came to reducing expenditure at the Department of Education.
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