Audit critical over lack of controls on payments to abuse survivors

An audit of Caranua criticises the lack of internal controls over how payments were made to abuse survivors in 2015.

Caranua was established by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to oversee the use of the cash contributions of up to €110m, pledged by the religious congregations, to support the needs of survivors of institutional child abuse.

The audit of the agency’s 2015 financial statements carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) found that in a large number of cases, the required documentation was not supplied to the agency in return for grant payments.