Recommendation HIA-6: HIA Redress Board
From Report of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, published 20 January 2017.
Recommendation
We consider the appropriate method of administering the compensation scheme is to create a specific Historic Institutional Abuse Redress Board for that purpose, and we so recommend. The HIA Redress Board should be responsible for receiving and processing applications for, and making payments of, compensation.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry recommended creating a dedicated board to process applications and pay compensation. In March 2020, First Minister Arlene Foster announced in an Executive Office news release that the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Redress Board had opened for applications following legislation passed in November 2019 (Arlene Foster, Mar 2020). The Minister described opening the board for applications, while the payment of compensation was not mentioned in the source (Arlene Foster, Mar 2020). Earlier, a report laid before Parliament in September 2019 by the department and the Northern Ireland Office recorded that the recommendations had not yet been put to the Northern Ireland Executive because of its January 2017 collapse (Northern Ireland Executive response, Sep 2019).
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Government response
No formal government response published. The Inquiry reported on 20 January 2017, the month the Northern Ireland Executive collapsed; the report The Executive Office and the Northern Ireland Office laid before Parliament in September 2019 records that, because of the collapse, the report and its recommendations had not yet been put to the Executive.
Delivery
The Executive Office (Northern Ireland) says completed (31 March 2020)
Following the passage of the legislation in November 2019, officials across a number of departments have been working at pace to ensure that the Redress Board and compensation scheme opens as quickly as possible. As a result, I am pleased to confirm that the HIA Redress Board has today opened for applications.
From: Opening of Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board, Arlene Foster
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Who has spoken
- Northern Ireland Executive
Response - The Executive Office (Northern Ireland)
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