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It is a reasonable request for clergy abuse survivors to be in the room in Rome when Cardinal George Pell gives evidence via a video link, an inquiry chair has ruled.

Child abuse royal commission chair Justice Peter McClellan on Monday said technical testing was still being carried out at a hotel in central Rome for Cardinal Pell’s evidence to the hearing in Sydney next week.

A crowd funding campaign has raised more than $200,000 to send a group of clergy abuse survivors and support personnel to Rome to hear Cardinal Pell’s testimony over three days from next Monday.