Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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1272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 24 March 2014 and 268 of 15 April 2014, in which she stated that a facility (details supplied) was not an educational facility, the reason her Department paid for teaching staff at that location; and the reason this would not entitle people to redress under the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund. [31282/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Eligibility for assistance from the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund is limited to those people who received awards from the Residential Institutions Redress Board or equivalent Court awards or settlements. The Residential Institutions Redress Board was established pursuant to the provisions of the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002. The Schedule to that Act included 123 specified institutions and section 4 of the Act enabled the Minister for Education and Science to provide for the insertion into the Schedule of

"any industrial school, reformatory school, orphanage, children's home, special school which was established for the purpose of providing education services to children with a physical or intellectual disability or a hospital providing medical or psychiatric services to people with a physical or mental disability or mental illness in which children were placed and resident and in respect of which a public body had a regulatory or inspection function."

Two Orders specifying additional institutions were made in November 2004 and July 2005, bringing the total number of scheduled institutions to 139. Since then, no further institutions have been added to the Schedule. I understand that requests to include the facility referred to by the Deputy were considered by my Department and refused on the basis that it did not come within the terms of section 4.

The replies to the Parliamentary Questions referred to by the Deputy indicate that there were no records in my Department of any payments being issued to teaching staff at the facility.