Representatives of survivors of the Protestant-run Bethany Home have met Government ministers to press for compensation by the State for childhood abuse.
A survivors' spokesman said the Government appeared to have increased its level of concentration on the plight of the 18 survivors of the former Dublin-based institution.
Niall Meehan said the discussion with Minister for Justice Alan Shatter and Junior Minister Kathleen Lynch had been thorough.
He said that the ministers had promised to get back to them soon.
Three years ago, Mr Meehan discovered unmarked graves of 219 Bethany children in a Dublin cemetery.
Survivors Derek Linster and Patrick Anderson McQuaid say they were severely neglected while in care up to the age of around four.
The Home was inspected from 1934 until it closed in 1972 by State officials and the survivors say this entitles them to redress.
Mr Meehan said the Bethany survivors could be included in the redress scheme for women who were confined to Catholic-run institutions.
The Survivors' Group proposed being included in the Residential Institutions Redress Board which compensated victims of abuse in industrial schools and reformatories.
The Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, Michael Jackson, has urged the Government to assist the Bethany survivors.
But he says there was no official connection between the Church and the Home.
The Bethany Survivors' Group say the home was recommended to Government by a predecessor of Dr Jackson's as a suitable venue for the incarceration of female juveniles who had come before the courts.
