NORTHERN IRELAND
Herald Scotland
The bill for compensating survivors of child abuse in Northern Ireland could run to £30 million, campaigners have warned.
Some 524 victims could be eligible to make claims over their treatment in institutions from 1922-1995, including at the notorious Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast and by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.
Campaigners are urging the Stormont Executive to agree to a special redress scheme, with basic payments starting at £10,000, to avoid lengthy, traumatic and expensive civil actions in the courts.
They said it could save £10m off the final bill.
Margaret McGuckin of Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse, said: “It is now up to ministers to deliver.
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