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Monday 18 October 2021
Varadkar said the Department of Housing has also received requests from local authorities in Sligo, Clare, Limerick and Tipperary to engage in the Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme.
The government has hired OAK Consulting to oversee the consultation process at a cost of €20,000.
As RTÉ examines the legacy of States of Fear, 21 years on, Sheila Ahern discusses the landmark documentary and the late Mary Raftery, its producer.
Thirteen applicants to the scheme have been offered €84,000, but there are concerns over the associated legal costs.
For some of the women, it was still a case their word against the nuns’ words in 2018.
A retired judge said that the State’s approach showed an “inherent inversion of logic and a fundamental unfairness to applicants”.
A retired judge said that the State’s approach showed an “inherent inversion of logic and a fundamental unfairness to applicants”.
Convicted paedophile Barry Bennell was a former youth team coach at Man City.
It is understood the roll out of the redress scheme is in its final stages.
Lump sum and pension payments will be made to the women affected.
Ombudsman Peter Tyndall has welcomed the government’s acceptance of his recommendations for redress for survivors.
The land has already been zoned for housing.
The Department of Health has insisted the new hospital will be independently run.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Church needs to reflect on the commitment it made in 2002.
A group representing victims has called for the return of all documents submitted to a redress scheme.
The move comes after symphysiotomy survivors objected to an online notice warning them that unclaimed medical records would be destroyed.
Symphysiotomy survivors are urging the state’s redress scheme not to go ahead with plans to destroy unclaimed medical documents.
€83 million of donations has been made from congregations since the Ryan Report.
Independent TD Clare Daly recently said that recommendations made by the United Nations have not been met.
There has been some difficulty in those who underwent the procedure accessing their medical records.
The three deaths have occurred since the scheme was announced in July.
The group handed in a letter to the Taoiseach’s office today.
Parallels have been made between the Bethany Home case and that of the Magadalene Laundries.
Three years ago Kathleen Lynch said the government’s refusal to include the Bethany Home in a redress scgeme was a “running sore”. Yesterday she said the government’s decision to refuse redress was an “appropriate one”.
The religious orders who were responsible for the Magdalene Laundries should give money towards the compensation scheme, but Enda Kenny says he won’t go down the legal route to ensure they do.
The compensation scheme announced this week falls far short of what’s required, survivors say.
The phone line opened yesterday and survivors are encouraged to contact the department to register their case.
Minister Ruairí Quinn also said that a memorial will be created for the victims of institutional abuse in Ireland.
TV LICENCES SHOULD be abolished and replaced by some form of exchequer funding for RTÉ, a new report has recommended.
The Irish Times yesterday reported that the report by the Future of Media Commission, an independent body set up by the government, proposes the licence fee should be replaced by funding directly sourced by the from the exchequer.
Figures released to The Journal earlier this month under the Freedom of Information Act show that RTÉ spent more than €1 million advertising the TV licence fee on its own television, radio and online channels in the past three years.
Television owners in Ireland must pay a €160 fee every year, which goes towards funding RTÉ’s programming on television and radio, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s Sound and Vision scheme, TG4, and An Post (which gets a commission for collecting the fee).
So, today we want to know… Do you pay your TV licence?
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