The Inquiry’s Institutional Response hearings will examine the institutional responses of selected State and Faith-based organisations (“the organisations”) to matters set out in the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference.

At the hearings the Inquiry will hear evidence, ask questions and put propositions to these organisations in respect of failures to provide adequate care and to prevent and respond to abuse in care between 1950 to 1999 and, where appropriate, from 1999 until present day. This includes but is not limited to structural, systemic, or practical factors that caused or contributed to the abuse of individuals in State care and in the care of faith-based institutions.