12 March, 2015 - Minister O’Sullivan announces appointment to Caranua (Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board)

The Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan T.D., has appointed Ms Rosemary Adaser to fill a vacancy that has arisen on the Board of Caranua (the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund).

Ms. Adaser is a former resident of a scheduled institution and lives in the United Kingdom. She has been appointed for the remainder of the Board’s four year term of office. This term commenced on 25th March 2013.

Positions on the Caranua Board are not remunerated.

Ms Adaser’s appointment was made in accordance with the new procedures recently put in place for making of appointments to State Boards.

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Further information regarding Caranua is available on the website www.caranua.ie.

The Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, which uses the service name Caranua, is the State body established in 2013 under the provisions of the Residential institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012. It oversees the use of up to €110 million in cash contributions pledged by religious congregations to support the needs of some 15,000 survivors of residential institutional child abuse. This support will involve the provision of a range of approved services, including health and personal social services, education and housing services.

Ms Rosemary Adaser is a former resident of an institution and resides in the United Kingdom. She is a co-founder of Mixed Race Irish, a campaign group seeking to raise awareness of colour-specific abuse endured by mixed race children within the Irish industrial school network. She has extensive senior management experience in social and community based environments.