Ms Carmel McDonnell Byrne:

I still have my doubts about the Bill because two years after that apology funding was stopped from Sally Mulready’s whispering hope group in England. Everybody was shocked at the time. We should not have to keep asking for funding. It is a given now. I look at HSE offices and think "My God, they are fantastic-looking", while we have had to move several times because we need to reduce rent and cuts costs so we can have staff.

We could have stayed where we were but we could not afford our staff, so we had to move again. It is not fair to the survivors because we are having to uproot them all of the time. I ask that funding is looked at for the organisations that are out there, trying their best to keep people.