Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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1020. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cross-departmental engagement his Department has had with the Department of Education regarding the scoping inquiry, as announced by the Minister for Education in March 2023, into allegations of historical sexual abuse in schools run by religious orders. [27213/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Secretary General of my Department has recently received correspondence from the Chair of the Scoping Inquiry into historical sexual abuse in schools run by religious orders. The Scoping Inquiry is an independently-led process and I am advised that engagement with a range of stakeholders, including my Department and other Government Departments, is being progressed in that context. My Department is engaging with the Scoping Inquiry on that basis.