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.