My mother suffered in State-run children’s homes, but the bill proposing to lock away for 75 years all evidence of such abuse is concerned with secrecy, not privacy, says Fionna Fox.

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.

The United Nations will today hear how survivors of institutional abuse in Ireland have been treated, following the Ryan Report.