Ms Aoife Conduit:

We cannot reopen the redress scheme. It has been closed since 2011. What I would say is there will not be an eligibility list for the Sage Advocacy service. If somebody rings up and says they were resident in an institution, the service will help them. It is the same with the national counselling service the HSE put in place for former residents of institutions. We do not envisage an eligibility process or application process for people who did not apply under the redress scheme. It was open for the best part of a decade. A Government decision was taken in 2011 to close it at that point.