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All Newsletters : December 2004 : Compensation Claims from Ireland

Compensation Claims from Ireland

Many Former Child Migrants have asked C-BERS for clarification regarding recent notices which have appeared in the press about compensation for people formerly in institutional care in Ireland.

The Government of the Republic of Ireland has set up a compensation scheme for those people who were in orphanages in the Republic and who were abused whilst in institutional care.

On the whole, Former Child Migrants are not eligible for this scheme as most Irish Child Migrants were in care in the North of Ireland (which is governed by the British Government) and not in the South. Some Former Child Migrants who were born in the South were in convents with their mothers in the Republic of Ireland before being admitted to an orphanage either in the North or in England and Wales. These people would be considered to have been in the care of their mothers and not in institutional care.

However, a very small handful of Former Child Migrants spent some time in Nazareth House, Sligo before migrating to Australia from a Nazareth House in the North. Sligo is in the Republic of Ireland and so, if ex-residents from this institution were abused whilst in care there, they may qualify for compensation from this scheme.

The cut-off date for claims is December 2005, and medical proof of abuse is required.

Newspaper articles about the Compensation Scheme refer to thousands of people in Australia being eligible. They are not, of course, referring to “thousands” of British Child Migrants (we know there were only 3 or 4 who were in care in Southern Ireland), but rather to those many thousands of people formerly in institutional care in Ireland who emigrated to Australia in adult life.

Anyone who was in institutional care in the Republic of Ireland, who has evidence that they were abused there, and therefore feels they are eligible to claim compensation from this scheme, is advised to contact The Residential Institutions Redress Board on 1300 308 478 or visit their website www.rirb.ie





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