Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion

Ms Maeve Lewis:

There are, because we in One in Four support people through 60 or 70 criminal trials a year. That support is there and it is a growing need. On the volume of people involved with regard to institutional survivors, the advocacy support we have been talking about could, perhaps, also support people through these processes because, inevitably, all the clients we support through the criminal justice trial find that process shaming, demeaning, dehumanising and retraumatising. I could go on all morning on this description. Indeed, I believe Deputy O'Callaghan himself is a barrister; am I correct in that?

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