Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason only one UK based survivor has been appointed to the board of Caranua; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49350/18]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The composition of the Board of Caranua is set out in Section 11 of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012. It specifies that four of the members will be persons, who before they attained the age of 18 years, resided in an institution specified in the Schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002. Members of the Board are expected to play key roles in relation to the direction, leadership and corporate governance of the organisation. Board members do not have a role in determining the outcome of applications by survivors to Caranua or in lobbying on behalf of individual survivors or survivor representatives or advocacy groups.

With the recent filling of the two vacancies, the composition of the Board is as geographically diverse as it was before the vacancies arose, i.e., there continues to be 1 UK based survivor on the Board.