Ulster Unionist Leader Robin Swann, has described the news that victims of Historical Institutional Abuse will have to wait at least another 10 months for compensation, as ‘shameful’.
Robin Swann MLA said:
“In January, Sir Anthony Hart published the findings of the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry, which documented decades of abuse and made a number of significant recommendations, which sought to recognise and give financial redress to the plight of the victims.
“In February, in the House of Commons, my Party colleague Tom Elliott asked the Prime Minister for an assurance that if Stormont could not implement the HIA findings, then the UK Government would do so. The Prime Minister assured him that this would be the case.
“Now we learn from the Head of the Civil Service, that with no working Executive in place, it is unlikely any financial redress will be made before April 2018. This situation is absolutely shameful.
“If the two largest parties are incapable of getting the devolved institutions back up and running by the end of this month, then Theresa May must stick to her promise to ensure that the findings of the HIA Inquiry are acted upon.
“The victims have waited too long for redress, now is the time to act.”
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