A UN Committee says its seriously concerned at the lack of information provided by the Irish State into investigations into historical abuse outlined in the Ryan Report.
The UN Committee against Torture has published its final report on the Irish GovernmentÂ’s performance on issues including historic institutional abuse, detention and healthcare.
ItÂ’s also calling on the State to ensure that all victims get redress;
Juliette Gash reports;
Publishing its report, the United Nations Committee Against Torture said it "considers that its recommendations to implement the recommendations of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, known as the Ryan Report, and to investigate allegations of torture and ill-treatment at reformatory and industrial schools operated by Catholic Church orders, prosecute and punish perpetrators of such abuse, and provide redress to the victims, have been partially implemented."
However it says it's "seriously concerned that the State party did not provide further information in support of the statement that its authorities have carried out “a sizeable number of investigations” into allegations of abuse at institutions that have resulted in prosecutions and convictions of perpetrators or information requested by the Committee on the steps the State party has taken to encourage victims of criminal acts to come forward. The Committee is also concerned that the Government affirmed that it has no intention of continuing to deliver any funding that may be required for assistance to victims beyond 2019, at which point the Redress Scheme and Caranua, the State body responsible for providing assistance, will be dissolved."
