Written answers
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Department of Education and Skills
Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
3:00 pm
Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have availed of the Residential Institutions Redress scheme; their ages, gender and country of residence; if he will provide an exact figure paid to the survivors of abuse and a breakdown of money paid to the legal profession and advocacy groups. [22538/12]
Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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At the end of December 2011 the Redress Board had accepted 15,404 applications of which 14,855 had been processed resulting in 13,915 awards. A total of €866.58m was paid out in awards and €166.34m was paid in legal and associated costs. The Board's annual report provides a more detailed breakdown of the legal payments to solicitors in any one year. At end 2011, the Redress Board had a further 1,474 late submissions to be considered.
At the end of 2011, further expenditure associated with the Indemnity Agreement amounted to €9.6 in respect of court awards, settlements and associated costs. I have provided a breakdown of the age profile, gender profile and country of residence.
Up to the end of 2011, a total of approximately €2.79 million in funding was provided by my Department to Irish based groups representing survivors of institutional abuse. In the same period, just over €5.14 million was paid to the Survivor Outreach Services based in the UK. In addition to this, approximately €36,000 was paid in miscellaneous expenditure, primarily to groups who were not in receipt of regular annual funding from my Department but who would have been involved in various meetings with Government in the context of redress related issues
Note: All figures provided are up to 31st December 2011
Reports on Age, Gender and Country of Residence are based on the 15,341 cases which had been registered on the Case Management System by the 31st December 2011. 63 cases had not yet been registered due to insufficient information provided.
1. Total Number of Applications Received 15,404
2.. Breakdown of applications by decade of birth:
| Age Group | Number of Apps | Percentage |
| Prior to 1920 | 99 | 0.65% |
| 1920-1929 | 776 | 5.06% |
| 1930-1939 | 2896 | 18.88% |
| 1940-1949 | 4374 | 28.51% |
| 1950-1959 | 4066 | 26.50% |
| 1960-1969 | 2012 | 13.12% |
| 1970-1979 | 911 | 5.94% |
| 1980- | 196 | 1.28% |
| No DOB Provided | 11 | 0.07% |
| Total | 15341 | 100.00% |
5. Breakdown of applications by country of residence
| Country of Residence | Total Applications Received | % of Total Received |
| Ireland | 9227 | 60.15% |
| Great Britain | 5093 | 33.20% |
| USA | 327 | 2.13% |
| Australia | 321 | 2.09% |
| Northern Ireland | 137 | 0.89% |
| Canada | 101 | 0.66% |
| Spain | 32 | 0.21% |
| New Zealand | 21 | 0.14% |
| Germany | 18 | 0.12% |
| The Netherlands | 15 | 0.10% |
| France | 9 | 0.06% |
| Sweden | 6 | 0.04% |
| Denmark | 5 | 0.03% |
| South Africa | 4 | 0.03% |
| Channel Islands | 3 | 0.02% |
| Belgium | 2 | 0.01% |
| Italy | 3 | 0.02% |
| Portugal | 2 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.01% |
| China | 1 | 0.01% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 0.01% |
| Finland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Malta | 1 | 0.01% |
| Morocco | 1 | 0.01% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 0.01% |
| Norway | 1 | 0.01% |
| Republic of Panama | 1 | 0.01% |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 0.01% |
| Thailand | 1 | 0.01% |
| The Philippines | 1 | 0.01% |
| United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 1 | 0.01% |
| West Indies | 1 | 0.01% |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 0.01% |
| Total | 15341 | 100.00% |
6. Breakdown of applications by gender
| Gender | Number | Percentage |
| Male | 9212 | 60.05% |
| Female | 6129 | 39.95% |
| Total | 15341 | 100.00% |
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