Ireland: No redress scheme for Bethany Home Survivors
[Brussels 24 July] Ireland is still struggling with past cases of sexual violence in catholic schools as the Bethany House case suggests. More specifically, the Irish government announced yesterday that a redress scheme is not to be created for the Protestant Bethany Home survivors, a decision consistent with the view expressed by Minister of Education Ruairi Quinn two years ago, that there is no basis to revisit the exclusion of the Bethany Home survivors from such a scheme.
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