A total of €1.8m of the €6.3m owed by the Christian Brothers to redress organisation Caranua will be paid today — with the remainder to be paid in instalments by the end of the year.

Government departments have only just begun consideration of how to provide continued supports to survivors of institutional child abuse after the Caranua fund is wound up.

A State body's dealings with the institutional child abuse victims it was set up to provide support for is to be the subject of an Oireachtas committee request for an independent investigation.

More than 200 institutional child abuse victims sought housing, health, or other aid for the first time in the two months coming up to the final deadline for claims from the Caranua fund.

Almost €8.5m has yet to be provided to the Caranua fund for institutional abuse survivors, which closes for applications today.

The decision not to extend the Caranua fund for victims of abuse to former residents of mother and baby homes is disappointing.

Survivors of institutional abuse have criticised the CEO of the support scheme set up to help survivors over controversial remarks made last year.

Caranua paid almost €100,000 to a Catholic Church-funded counselling service to provide support to abuse survivors over the last two years.

An audit of Caranua criticises the lack of internal controls over how payments were made to abuse survivors in 2015.

Almost two complaints a week were made against Caranua last year by survivors of institutional child abuse.