Seanad debates
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage
2:00 am
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
They were people with court awards and settlements that did not require a waiver and who were able to access the Caranua scheme. With the supports under discussion, the person does not have to have availed of Caranua to avail of the educational or the medical card scheme, but we have applied the same criteria as would have been for the redress scheme. A lot of people would have signed waivers, but not everybody. For what we are talking about here and what the Senator is talking about more broadly, I do not believe that I as a single Minister can decide whether waivers are appropriate for a redress scheme, full stop. I am focused on these criteria, in which there is not a specific reference to a waiver. There is for the redress scheme, which is a separate piece.
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