Towards healing

[Marylou]

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Written answers

Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Department of Education and Skills

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund

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Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, United Left)
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228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Caranua has signed a memorandum of understanding with a service (details supplied); and if so, the terms of this memorandum of understanding, including any costs to the residential institutions statutory fund incurred as a result of this MOU. [20560/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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As I have explained to the Deputy in response to previous Parliamentary Questions,Caranua is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to support the needs of survivors of residential institutional child abuse. Administrative and operational issues such as those raised in the Deputy's question are day to day matters that are the responsibility of Caranua itself and I have no role in those matters.

I understand that, in late 2014, Caranua agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Towards Healing for the provision of counselling services to former residents who wish to continue receiving counselling with Towards Healing. The arrangement covers those former residents who are eligible for support from Caranua and who have received 80 counselling sessions and whose further counselling needs have been recommended by an independent review panel to be clinically appropriate. Caranua will pay Towards Healing the agreed costs of the counselling services received by eligible former residents. I understand, from enquiries made by my officials, that Caranua has made payments of €87,263.50 and €7,385 to Towards Healing in the years 2015 and 2016 respectively in relation to services provided under the MOU.

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“Mary Higgins Contract with Towards Healing”

[micheal]

I applied in jan of 2014 i can tell you that my needs have yet to be discussed, through 4 different advisors, there is some type of agenda here, what it is i dont know but i do know i am being discriminated against along with 100s more survivors for some reason. 

[Marylou]

There agenda 

[Marylou]

Spot on 

[john amos]

Cabana is a joke the way they cause further suffering to survivors when I applied I thought was it worth it I should have went with my gut feeling of and not bothered all the trouble we have to go through because it was our right to but made me feel so wrong in applying I wait in vain to see after the third stage if they even reply because the time scale is ridiculous

[john amos]

Caranua

[micheal]

Its nothing short of criminal John, insulting and degrading victims of abuse.