NORTHERN IRELAND
4NI
The Chairman of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Sir Anthony Hart, has today announced that a team of Inquiry lawyers, support staff and Acknowledgement Forum Panel members will pay a second visit to Australia next month.
The visit will form part of the preparations for the Inquiry’s second module of hearings, which will examine the operation of a child migrant scheme involving the transfer of children from institutions in Northern Ireland to institutions in Australia.
The Chairman said that the module – Module 2 – will commence hearings at the beginning of September.
The Inquiry hopes to commence hearings for Module 3 later in the same month. That module will focus on the former De La Salle Boys’ Home, Rubane House, in Kircubbin, Co. Down.
The Chairman said: “As you will be aware, today is the 35th day of public hearings devoted to St Joseph’s Home, Termonbacca and Nazareth House Children’s Home, both in Derry/Londonderry, and we expect that the public hearings in relation to these institutions should be completed by the end of this month, or at the latest by early June.
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