Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 29 September 2010 if she will now include Bethany House in the residential institutions redress scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38175/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Government considered a range of demands for the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme to be extended, including that to include Bethany House, and decided not to extend the scheme.

Bethany House was certified as a place of detention for offending female, non-Catholic children and young persons, under 17 years of age, by the Minister for Justice in 1945, under section 108 of the Children Act 1908. As outlined in my earlier reply, the Department of Justice and Law Reform has advised that it has not received any allegations of abuse from any female committed to Bethany House pursuant to the Children Act 1908 and that it would be happy to deal with any such cases on an individual basis. No male children or young persons were committed to Bethany House through the Criminal Justice system.