Child Abuse
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THE next chairman of the Redress Board should not have active Catholic links, a support group of victims of residential abuse by religious orders has urged the Taoiseach.
Christine Buckley, the co-ordinator of the Aislinn Education and Support Centre, has pleaded with Mr Ahern to appoint a sensitive chairman to succeed the late Judge Sean O'Leary, who died late last year, to the position.
Judge O'Leary, according to Aislinn, attended a diocesan college and had a brother who was a member of a religious order.
"Please let the selection of the chairman be clearly seen to be impartial," Ms Buckley wrote in an open letter to the Taoiseach.
Ms Buckley also called on the Government to direct the new chairperson to be more respectful of victims in their methods.
The average payment to such victims has fallen from €80,000 to between €54,000 and €30,000.
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