Ms Mary Higgins:

The position is not that we have been giving money back to the Catholic Church but that we will pay for counselling if that is what people are looking for. There are a number of counselling services in place. Towards Healing is one of the counselling services funded by the Catholic Church. It has a limit on the number of counselling sessions survivors are able to have and we will pay if there is a need for additional sessions. We also pay for other counselling services.