To Whom It May Concern:
We have recently learnt that an Independent audit of the assets of 18 religious congregations which were party to the controversial 2002 redress agreement with the State is to be presented to the Government on the 24th June 2009.
The congregations, whose management of residential institutions for children which led to the recent Ryan Commissions Report, agreed to the audit at a meeting in Government Buildings on June 5th last with Taoiseach Brian Cowen and senior Ministers.
The congregations agreed at that meeting to contribute to a trust the Taoiseach proposed be set up, so that further financial and other supports can be provided to people who had been in the institutions as children.
It appears that the aforementioned meetings with the Taoiseach Brian Cowen and senior Ministers are being held without survivor – led organisations.
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