IRELAND
Irish Independent
Shane Phelan
March 11 2017
The religious order at the centre of the Tuam babies burial scandal has been paid €43.5m over the past 10 years by the private hospital group it runs.
Accounts for Bon Secours Health System Ltd reveal the payments were made to Bon Secours Sisters Ireland in respect of the leasing of buildings and interest on loans advanced by the order.
The payments mean that, unlike many other religious orders in Ireland, the Bon Secours Sisters are in rude financial health.
However, the order has refused to say what it does with the money paid to it by the hospital group.
Its finances have come under sharp focus in recent days, with calls made in the Dáil and the Seanad for the order’s resources to be made available to survivors of the Tuam home and relatives of those who died.
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