I would like complain most strongly about your Countries shameful lip service to Consultation over the ProposedStatutory Fund
This has only been announced in The (Irish) Independent and another News Paper only published in Limerick
Both of these News Papers are only published in Southern Ireland!
The Survivors of the Irish Industrial Schools are all over the World
Many live in the UK
The Global awareness of this �Consultation Process is very poor; Just type Statutory Fund into any search engine?
The Government has been consulting with C.O.R.I. and Government Mandated Survivors Organisations (some of which have been investigated for misappropriation of Funds) for quite some time; but Survivors are ignored; and the period of so called Consultation very short?
To use the word Proposed assumes; that this fund may not happen; from your Governments stance on this matter it is as Proposed as Hitlers annexation of Poland! The word Inevitable should have been used.
I would also like you to address the fact that your government refuse to correspond on this matter; Brian Cowen keeps on passing on my correspondence to Mary Coughlan (He is ducking the issues), she for her part sends me acknowledgement of the fact that Brian Cowen has asked her to respond to me personally! Which she fails to do?
When the additional compensation for Survivors was announced by C.O.R.I. there was a general expectation that; that is what it was?
I understand that his heinous Fund; is to replace the Education and Welfare Fund; which means taking money away from Survivors.
I strongly oppose the setting up of the Trust Fund on behalf of my wife who is a victim of your Country!
I also assert that the Original Indemnity Deal struck with C.O.R.I. is unconstitutional: Article 44.2.2 of the Constitution, states quite clearly that the State guarantees not to endow any religion.
Robert Northall
Posted on 21 Oct 2010 3:38 pm
I would like complain most strongly about your Countries shameful lip service to Consultation over the ProposedStatutory Fund
This has only been announced in The (Irish) Independent and another News Paper only published in Limerick
Both of these News Papers are only published in Southern Ireland!
The Survivors of the Irish Industrial Schools are all over the World
Many live in the UK
The Global awareness of this �Consultation Process is very poor; Just type Statutory Fund into any search engine?
The Government has been consulting with C.O.R.I. and Government Mandated Survivors Organisations (some of which have been investigated for misappropriation of Funds) for quite some time; but Survivors are ignored; and the period of so called Consultation very short?
To use the word Proposed assumes; that this fund may not happen; from your Governments stance on this matter it is as Proposed as Hitlers annexation of Poland! The word Inevitable should have been used.
I would also like you to address the fact that your government refuse to correspond on this matter; Brian Cowen keeps on passing on my correspondence to Mary Coughlan (He is ducking the issues), she for her part sends me acknowledgement of the fact that Brian Cowen has asked her to respond to me personally! Which she fails to do?
When the additional compensation for Survivors was announced by C.O.R.I. there was a general expectation that; that is what it was?
I understand that his heinous Fund; is to replace the Education and Welfare Fund; which means taking money away from Survivors.
I strongly oppose the setting up of the Trust Fund on behalf of my wife who is a victim of your Country!
I also assert that the Original Indemnity Deal struck with C.O.R.I. is unconstitutional: Article 44.2.2 of the Constitution, states quite clearly that the State guarantees not to endow any religion.
This needs to be revisited?