€86 million cash in the bank, but the majority of religious organisations haven’t offered any redress

by TeoKajLibroj

17 comments

  1. The government should pass legislation that just takes the money.

  3. How many empty religious buildings have been used to house refugees? Oh none? Oh thats fine then. How much did they pay redress to victims of sexual abuse and mother and baby homes. Nothing? Oh right then.

  4. >Out of the eight religious bodies with historical involvement in mother and baby institutions, only two have offered financial contributions to the survivor compensation scheme.

    They should be ashamed.

  5. It shouldn’t be their choice on this issue. 

    Their assets also far exceed their cash on hand. They have a massive property portfolio that can be liquidated.

  6. The sooner people realise these organisations have zero interest in people’s best interest or doing the right thing the better. The only thing they are interested in is self preservation and they should have been ran out of this country years ago.

  7. Religions should be taxed.
    Irish religious orders need to have their assets seized and shared amongst those they abused .

  8. Now consider the property value if what they own.

    Now ask yourself – if this was the Kinihans, how quickly would we use the criminal assets bureau?

  10. The way I see it the government owes these institutions a lot more since they looked after women that the State, and their own families, were unwilling to look after.

  13. Take their entire balance sheets off them. CPO at zero consideration and if they ever dared take it court, you’d have tens of thousands of proven accounts of abuse along with how many hundred children’s remains in a septic tank in Tuam.

    I get that the state has a shared responsibility to redress (it was all done on the state’s watch back when we were basically Rome rule), but it feels like state 99.9% and the religious orders 0.1%, when they still have 99% of the schools, hospitals and care homes under their control.

  14. Just take their money and shut them down. It will be a blessing seeing them trying to build again from the ground up and failing miserably.

  15. Is there any reason a victim of their abuse couldn’t sue onenof the religious organisations in question?

  16. Schools should be taken. Church spent years setting up loads of little trusts to stop having to pay after all the kiddy fiddling. They will not give it up easy as schools are the only thing that is keeping religion alive.

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