State sued over compensatory scheme for victims of child sexual abuse in national schools

Scheme will not provide compensation for mental distress/anguish/lack of funds due to a delay in establishing an adequate compensatory scheme

The woman claims Ireland has no effective compensatory scheme for victims. File Picture.

A woman who claims she was "repeatedly and appallingly" sexually abused by her national school principal as a child wants the High Court to compel the State to establish a new or amended compensatory scheme for victims of such abuse.

The woman claims, more than six years after the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) ruling in the Louise O’Keeffe case, that Ireland has a liability to such victims, no effective compensatory scheme has been put in place.