Move to avoid duplicate funding

THE Department of Education and the HSE are cross-referencing funding requests from groups representing survivors of institutional abuse due to possible “duplicate funding”.

Internal documents obtained by the Irish Examiner show that the Department of Education wrote to the HSE earlier this year to check what money it had given to a specific group in order that both would not fund it for the same thing.

The department official wrote that Cork-based group Right of Place, which it has funded since 2001, sought funding for areas of expenditure the department had never previously funded. These included staff salaries, office rent, training and research.