Call for AG to examine deal

THE Attorney General must examine the controversial deal signed between the Church and State to compensate victims of sex abuse in religious institutions, the Labour Party insisted yesterday.

Following the landmark High Court award of over €300,000 paid to a child abuse victim by the Dublin diocese, the deal between 18 religious orders and the State must be re-examined, Labour’s justice spokesman Joe Costello said.

Mr Costello called on the religious orders to renegotiate this deal because he claims they are not paying a fair share of the compensation.