483 Deputy Phil Hogan asked the Minister for Education and Science the procedures regarding the trust fund that is being established for victims of abuse in terms of financial compensation; the process by which this money will be discharged to the victims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8693/10]

The present position is that I have received individual responses from the 18 religious Congregations that were party to the 2002 Indemnity Agreement, to the call for them to make further substantial contributions by way of reparation, following publication of the Ryan Report. Details of the Congregations' offers of contributions, together with the report of the Panel appointed by the Government to assess the Statements of Resources submitted by the religious Congregations, are under consideration by the Government.

On the question of the uses to which the contributions will be put, the Deputy will be aware that in the meetings with former residents and the Congregations, support was expressed for the proposal that the use of a further substantial contribution from the Congregations should include a form of independent trust to be set up by the State which would be available to support the needs of survivors for general education and welfare purposes. The Government will consider the matter, in consultation with the representatives of the survivors and the Congregations.

484 Deputy Joe Behan asked the Minister for Education and Science the names of the 161 services, schools, hospitals and other facilities apart from industrial and reformatory schools which were referred to in the Ryan report and the 259 witnesses who testified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8860/10]

Part 2 of the Confidential Committee's Report in Volume 3 of the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, contains evidence given by 259 witnesses to the Confidential Committee in relation to 161 facilities, apart from Industrial or Reformatory Schools, that fell within the definition of an institution for the purposes of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, Acts 2000 and 2005. As outlined in Chapter 2 of the Confidential Committee's Report, the Acts give a commitment of confidentiality in relation to information furnished to the Committee and require that its Report should not identify or contain information that could lead to the identification of witnesses, or the persons against whom they made allegations, the institutions in which they alleged they were abused or any other person. As noted in the Report, it is a criminal offence to breach the assurance of confidentiality provided by the Acts to witnesses and to the work of the Committee.