{"id":526,"date":"2012-10-03T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/religious-orders-copping-out-of-abuse-compensation\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:22:27","slug":"religious-orders-copping-out-of-abuse-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/religious-orders-copping-out-of-abuse-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Orders Copping Out of Abuse Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Religious Orders\u00a0\u00a0Copping Out of Abuse\u00a0Compensation<\/h2>\n

October 1st, 2012 – Se\u00e1n Crowe TD<\/p>\n

Dublin South West Representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has said it is \u201cmorally indefensible\u201d that\u00a0 Religious Orders are refusing to meet their obligations and\u00a0looking to\u00a0“cop\u00a0out” of \u00a0paying up to \u00a0half the compensation for victims and survivors\u00a0of Residential Abuse.<\/div>\n
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Responding to\u00a0reports in the media\u00a0 suggesting\u00a0that Irish\u00a0taxpayers\u00a0will\u00a0be\u00a0asked\u00a0to \u00a0pay the\u00a0bulk of the \u20ac1.47 billion fund\u00a0 allocated to provide redress and supports for survivors of residential abuse,\u00a0Crowe said that\u00a0many people believed that they\u00a0were getting away\u00a0with paying “buttons” when consideration was taken into account of the extent of the depravity\u00a0and\u00a0hurt they had\u00a0intiated on\u00a0thousands of helpless victims. A ‘shoddy’\u00a0deal was agreed with the Religious Congretations and outgoing Education Minister Michael Woods in the dying days of a\u00a0previous Fianna Fail Government.<\/div>\n

Deputy\u00a0Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0said: \u201cIt is morally indefensible and unacceptable that the Religious Orders are refusing to meet their 50% share of the Compensation costs to pay for Redress for Survivors of Residential Abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current situation can no longer continue and at the very least the Congregations must act\u00a0 and release the balance of the promised\u00a0\u20ac110 million funding\u00a0needed to pay for the Statutory Fund, so that\u00a0\u00a0basic\u00a0supports needed\u00a0to help\u00a0survivors who suffered under the \u2018care\u2019 of the Religious Orders can be put in place.<\/div>\n

\u201cWhen this Legislation was debated earlier in the year in the D\u00e1il,\u00a0I \u00a0put forward amendments that if accepted, would have set a date for payment by the Congregations of the money needed to pay for the services covered by the Statutory Fund and\u00a0\u00a0suggested substantial financial penalties\u00a0 be imposed should the payment\u00a0deadline not be met.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn is right to point out the moral\u00a0\u00a0obligations and prior agreements\u00a0\u00a0of the Religious Congregations to honour their \u00a0commitments but words alone are not enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Religious Orders that ran the Institutions and\u00a0Care homes where so much of the \u00a0abuse and cruelty was inflicted\u00a0 have a collective responsibility for what happened and\u00a0 must pay their share of Compensation\u00a0for the remaining survivors of these hell holes.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Religious Orders\u00a0\u00a0Copping Out of Abuse\u00a0Compensation October 1st, 2012 – Se\u00e1n Crowe TD Dublin South West Representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has said it is \u201cmorally indefensible\u201d that\u00a0 Religious Orders are refusing to meet their obligations and\u00a0looking to\u00a0“cop\u00a0out” of \u00a0paying up to \u00a0half the compensation for victims and survivors\u00a0of Residential Abuse. Responding to\u00a0reports in the media\u00a0 suggesting\u00a0that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}