Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Aoife Conduit:
It is capped at €2,000 in a year. It would depend on the type of programme a person intends to do. There was the education finance board in 2006. It gave out a lot of money at that point as people were younger and maybe pursuing different kinds of programmes. There was some demand from Caranua for education supports, though it was not the bulk, by any means. I think the bulk went on health and housing adaptations. In our consultative forum there was a good bit of interest. People are still, despite being in those older age categories, interested in self-development and in doing programmes. There was certainly interest among some of the survivors on the forum in availing of those programmes, so I suppose-----