IRELAND
Irish Times
December 8, 2019
By Carl O’Brien
Religious congregations provide €110m in cash but owe twice that amount in property
Total cost of the State’s contribution to redress for survivors of residential institutions is likely to be in the region of €1.5bn.
The State has reached a milestone in securing church assets to cover the cost of abuse redress after the Christian Brothers fulfilled its pledge to complete its contribution of €30 million.
This largely completes cash pledges worth €110 million from religious organisations who offered in the aftermath of the publication of the Ryan report to part-fund redress and support for 15,000 former pupils.
However, religious congregations have yet to transfer more than twice this amount in the form of property which they pledged to hand over to the State about a decade ago.
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