Seanad debates
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage
2:00 am
Gerard Craughwell (Independent)
I turn to amendment No. 19. We learned from the military side of the world that there is a thing called moral injury. They say moral injury transitions three generations. To be honest, I cannot see a massive rush for PhDs, Masters degrees or whatever else from the former victims of the institutions, but there will be a requirement for education. Can we spread the education allowances to the families of those who were victims in institutions? Education, as we know, lifts all families. Families benefit from education and a lot of the people we talk about have been living in relative poverty and their families have suffered poverty over the past 25 years, in particular. Will the Minister consider looking at the possibility of passing some of the educational benefits to the children of those who were in these institutions?
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