Written answers

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Department of Education and Skills

Residential Institutions

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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894. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount to be paid by each religious institution into the residential institutional redress board scheme, in tabular form; and the amount that has been paid to date by each of the religious institutions. [20117/22]

Photo of Norma FoleyNorma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The 18 religious congregations involved in the management of most of the residential institutions in which child abuse took place have made contributions towards the costs incurred by the State in responding to that abuse under two rounds: the legally binding 2002 Indemnity Agreement and the voluntary offers made in 2009 in the aftermath of the publication of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (the “Ryan Report”). The amounts offered by the congregations total €480.6 million.

Some €125 million of the €128 million provided for under the 2002 Indemnity Agreement has been contributed, with the transfer of two properties remaining to be fully completed. The cash and counselling contributions received under the Agreement, amounting to some €65 million, were made on a collective basis and accordingly it is not possible to identify the amounts paid by individual congregations.

The offers made in the aftermath of the publication of the Ryan Report in 2009 included cash, properties and contributions in kind and were valued by the congregations at €352.6 million.  To date contributions amounting to approximately €117 million have been received. When account is taken of offers not accepted, changes in the valuation of the properties offered and the value of properties offered but not being reckoned as a contribution, the total value of the voluntary offers achievable may be lower than the amount offered.

Cash contributions of approximately €111.53 million have been received from the congregations, and are set out in the table below.

2009 Voluntary Offers Cash Contributions Received

Congregation Cash Contributions Received (€)
Brothers of Charity 1,500,000
Christian Brothers 30,000,000
Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul 10,000,000
Daughters of the Heart of Mary 1,500,000
De La Salle Brothers 1,000,000
Dominican Order 6,500,000
Oblates of Mary Immaculate 20,000,000
Hospitaller Order of St John of God 1,000,000
Presentation Brothers 4,600,000
Presentation Sisters 4,000,000
Sisters of Charity 2,000,000
Sisters of Our Lady of Charity 1,500,000
Sisters of St Clare 1,000,000
Sisters of St. Louis 1,000,000
Sisters of Mercy 25,928,659
TOTAL 111,528,659

One further cash contribution is outstanding under the 2009 offers, and will arise from the disposal of a property by the Sisters of Mercy.  

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