Sex offenders face €5,500 bill as One in Four loses treatment funding

Due to a lack of funds, a support group for abuse victims is turning away sex offenders seeking treatment, unless they can foot the bill themselves.

It costs €5,500 to complete a two-and-a-half year rehabilitation course at One in Four, but the HSE is not funding the organisation to provide the treatment.

One in Four says about 60% of people eventually get partial funding from the HSE, paying for the remainder themselves.