Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The design of the scheme was based on the idea of a generalised payment to avoid survivors having to prove individualised experiences such as forced participation in a vaccine trial. It is explicitly to avoid the need to go towards a testimony-based approach that the generalised payment based on the length of time spent in one of these institutions was adopted.