Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 274: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of residential institutions that come within the terms of reference of the redress board which are Church of Ireland institutions; the number which are Church of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31108/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides that in order for an institution to be placed on the Schedule to the Act the facility must have been subject to inspection or regulation by a public body. A total of 128 institutions are listed on the original Schedule to the Act. In November 2004 I signed an order for an additional 13 institutions to be placed on the Schedule and I signed a further order in July 2005 to include another three institutions.

As the religious ethos of an institution is not part of the criteria prescribed under section 4 of the Act, my Department did not require details of the religious ethos of all the institutions listed. However, records held in my Department indicate that there are seven institutions listed as having had a Protestant ethos.