This petition calls for:

1. a published press statement by the minister recommitted to a call for survivor-led non-discriminatory all-inclusive RIRB consultation talks as proposed by and promised to Mr William Gorry on 17 November 2017;
2. a ministerial letter to fund and support the survivor-led expression of interests process as proposed by and promised to Mr Gorry on behalf of RIRB survivors; and
3. a letter confirming the retraction of the department-led ‘external facilitator’ RFT process whilst awaiting the promised appointment of the survivor-led ‘independent facilitator’ for RIRB survivor-led consultation talks.

The RIRB consultation talks will finally grant survivors ownership and participation in having their voices heard to highlight their needs and inform policy through mandatory implementation of recommendations arising from those talks in a published report.

The consultation talks aim is to address the many distressing circumstances surrounding the lives of RIRB survivors and their families who are overrepresented, through no fault of their own, in the most harrowing social statistics in homelessness, mental health, self-harming, addictions, suicide, low income, repeated to long-term unemployment, imprisonment, broken relationships and families, social isolation, and poor life expectancy. Sadly, 2019 will see the highest death rates in the RIRB population at one per day.

The consultation talks will also ensure and support calls for a full inquiry into the reported financial mismanagement and discharge of the Residential Institutional Survivor Funds (RISF) by CARANUA over recent years. The Department of Education are also to be included in the terms of reference of such an inquiry for the part they played in oversight of any irregularities of the RISF.

Please sign this Petition if you support this call for survivor-led, all-inclusive, non-discriminatory RIRB consultation talks to be held in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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