THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has received two separate requests to investigate a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse.

JUST a few months ago a new board of directors was appointed to Right of Place, a charity for survivors of institutional abuse.

The Cork-based charity for victims of institutional abuse, Right of Place, has been engaged in massive infighting to the extent that it is not serving the best interests of those for whom it was supposedly established.

A LEGAL firm has written to the secretaries general of the Departments of Health and Education, outlining serious concerns about a Cork-based organisation for survivors of institutional abuse.

FORMER Fianna Fáil mayor and institutional abuse survivor Michael O’Brien said it was imperative that ongoing difficulties with Cork-based survivor group Right of Place be “solved once and for all”.

A CHARITY for survivors of institutional abuse continues to get government funding despite senior HSE management being shown evidence more than a year ago that there was “concern” over how the money was being used.

THE HSE has ordered an investigation into alleged abuse and threats made by members of a charity for survivors of institutional abuse.

THE HSE is incapable of sorting out ongoing serious difficulties in a charity for survivors of institutional abuse so the Government must now step in, it has been claimed.

SERIOUS issues in the running of a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse still have not been addressed despite the warring parties signing a HSE-brokered agreement to do so.

PUBLIC servants who think rejecting the Croke Park pay deal will lead to a re-negotiation are “just wrong” the Taoiseach said, insisting it is the only option on the table.

SURVIVORS of institutional abuse have asked the Taoiseach to instruct the HSE to discontinue funding a Cork-based charity for victims – and let Gardaí step in and investigate it.

SURVIVORS of clerical abuse say the Primate of All-Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal Seán Brady, told them he would comply with a statutory tribunal into the Church’s handling of clerical sex abuse complaints, if such a body was to be established.

THE HSE is providing funding to a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse despite stating it would not do so until “outstanding impediments” to a new contract for 2010 had been finalised.

THE Controller and Auditor General must investigate how funds given to a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse were spent, Labour TD Sean Sherlock has said.

A letter from survivors of abuse to be delivered to the Pope has been presented to the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin.

CONCERNS have been raised over how a High Court action – brought against his own members by the head of a group for survivors of institutional abuse – is being funded.

THE Health Service Executive must make a statement on the running of a state-funded group for survivors of institutional abuse, according to a Cork TD.

THE head of the Irish Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) group has written to Taoiseach Brian Cowen calling for an inquiry into the financing of all survivor groups over the past 10 years.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) is withholding funding from a Cork-based group representing survivors of institutional abuse until it can prove it can manage these monies appropriately.

NO further funding will be given to a group representing survivors of institutional abuse until its membership proves they can manage public money appropriately, the Health Service Executive has warned.

SURVIVORS of institutional abuse have met with a representative of the Bishop of Cork and Ross in relation to donations made to Right of Place.

SUPPORT agencies are urging survivors of sexual abuse to reach out for help when the Dublin Archdiocese Report is published.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese has told survivors of abuse in Catholic institutions that the people of Ireland are with them as they strive to recover from the horrors of their stolen childhoods.

A former student of Pope Benedict today branded clerics who ran abusive institutions as the “dregs of society”.

GROUPS representing child abuse victims have called on the Government to revisit “every” compensation case with a new expert advisory board.

ARCHBISHOP Seán Brady will address survivors of institutional abuse from around the world at a special Mass in Cork this weekend.

LAWYERS acting for victims of abuse in institutional schools came under fire last night for creaming off €29m in legal fees from the Redress Board.

THE Law Society has hit back at the abuse victims compensation board for saying it could have done more to stop solicitors overcharging vulnerable clients.

THE State’s most senior courts official last night launched a scathing attack on some members of the legal profession, claiming the mood for seismic change was now unstoppable in the wake of the overcharging scandal.

THE number of overseas applications for compensation from the Residential Institutions Redress Board could eventually outnumber those being made from within Ireland.

SEMINARS are to be held in the United States to track down potentially thousands of American-based Irish people who may be eligible for compensation and other benefits as victims of abuse in orphanages and other State institutions.

TAOISEACH Bertie Aherne yesterday defended his embattled Education Minister Noel Dempsey in the continuing row over the dramatic resignation of the head of the Child Abuse Commission.

GARDAÍ have launched a fourth inquiry into alleged child sexual abuse at a centre which housed orphans and boys with learning difficulties.

SURVIVORS of paedophile cleric Brother Ambrose yesterday sought reassurances from the Brothers of Charity that the ailing brother will not have access to children and will receive professional help.

GARDAÍ are to carry out another investigation into allegations of child sex abuse at a centre which housed orphans and boys with learning difficulties.

WITH growing suicide rates among child abuse victims, support groups are planning widespread protests if the work of a long-awaited compensation board fails to get underway next month.