Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 provided that Caranua could provide funding supports to those how had received an award of redress from the Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) or a similar court award or settlement. The RIRB was established in 2002 and closed for applications in September 2011. The RIRB made approximately 15,600 awards of redress, totalling almost €1 billion.

Caranua was established in 2013 to disburse the contributions of €110m (€111.38m including interest) provided by the religious congregations following the publication of the Ryan Report in 2009. In 2015 Caranua commissioned an actuarial study to estimate, based on data recorded by the RIRB, the survivor population as of 31 December 2015. This study concluded that the likely population of survivors would have been some 12,125 by that date.

Before closing in 2021, Caranua had made funding support payments to just over 6,000 eligible survivors who had applied for supports. Approximately 200 individuals who applied to Caranua were determined to be ineligible for support.