Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will address the concerns of a person (details supplied). [12705/04]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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While I continue to be concerned about the health and well-being of the person referred to by the Deputy, I must point out that he has taken his claim through the various stages of the redress scheme. The Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Review Committee are independent in the performance of their functions, in accordance with the terms of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002. My Department is not a party to the redress process and it is not open to me to make any comment on individual awards made by the redress board, or to attempt to intervene with the process. Officials from my Department have met the person in question on two separate occasions in the past two weeks and have outlined my Department's position on the matter. If individuals are not satisfied with offers made by the redress board or the review committee, they are entitled to proceed with their cases through the courts.