IRELAND
Irish Independent
Cormac McQuinn
March 9 2017
THE €1.5bn cost of the the child abuse inquiry and redress scheme has hugely exceeded original estimates, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) has found.
It was originally forecast that the redress scheme for survivors of institutional child abuse would cost €250m.
That spiraled to an estimated €1.25bn.
A summary of the report states that “government policy is that the congregations who ran the institutions would share equal liability of the €1.52 billion cost of redress i.e. contribute €760 million” and that “Total contributions offered to date are €406 million less than this.”
The report found that at the end of 2015 Religious congregations had only paid €192m.
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