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First Minister Peter Robinson had said on Friday that the inquiry’s work could be suspended if the Executive failed to agree on budget adjustments.
He said the June Monitoring Round is yet to be signed off due to ongoing disagreement over welfare reform.
Prior to the funding being secured, victims expressed their anger at Stormont on Monday in response to the First Minister’s comments.
Margaret McGuckin, from Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse (SAVIA), said that while they were given some reassurance that the inquiry would be funded, the initial comments were “inhuman and abusive”.
“We let them know that we’re very very angry, it’s living through this nightmare. It was very unkind, it was untimely, it was uncalled for,” she said.
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