PQ 526
526. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on the specific trauma-informed training that is in place for Departmental staff tasked with dealing with applicants and querists under the survivor supports work in relation to the supports available for survivors of residential institutional abuse; if a policy is in place in relation to the need to minimise the number of requests made of survivors to retell details of what happened to them; and her plans to ensure more and better guidance is provided to staff to ensure that all interactions with survivors are appropriately sensitive to the difficulties they have faced. [45961/26]
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16 June 2026
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526. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on the specific trauma-informed training that is in place for Departmental staff tasked with dealing with applicants and querists under the survivor supports work in relation to the supports available for survivors of residential institutional abuse; if a policy is in place in relation to the need to minimise the number of requests made of survivors to retell details of what happened to them; and her plans to ensure more and better guidance is provided to staff to ensure that all interactions with survivors are appropriately sensitive to the difficulties they have faced. [45961/26]
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