Victims of abuse in residential institutions have called on the Government to increase its awards to them in the light of yesterday's High Court award to Mervyn Rundle.
Christine Buckley, a former resident of Goldenbridge orphanage, said Mr Rundle's award exceeded the maximum payment permitted under the terms of reference of the State's Redress Board.
She said her organisation, Aislinn, was urgently asking the Minister for Education to increase the payments to victims of residential abuse.
Mervyn Rundle received an apology from Cardinal Desmond Connell in a statement read out in the High Court yesterday in addition to a financial settlement believed to be in the region of €300,000.
Mr Rundle was abused by Father Tom Naughton in the mid-1980s. The priest received a three-year jail sentence in 1998.
