An abuse survivor has said she believes the State will fight people "tooth and nail" over redress for those abused in religious-run schools.
A scoping report on alleged historical sexual abuse at 308 schools across Ireland recorded almost 2,400 allegations.
Taoiseach Simon Harris said last week that redress for those abused cannot be "parked" until after a full statutory inquiry is completed.
Louise O'Keeffe was abused at Dunderrow National School near Kinsale in 1973.
The principal, Leo Hickey, was later jailed and also paid Louise damages following a civil action.
Hickey was jailed for three years and was ordered to pay Ms O'Keeffe over €300,000 in damages in a civil action.
Ms O'Keeffe took the State to the High Court for failing to protect her from the abuse she suffered and lost, before taking and losing Supreme Court proceedings.
In 2014, however, she successfully took the State to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Ms O'Keeffe said the State wrote to others who had cases pending after she lost her Supreme Court judgement to try to get them to drop their cases.
She told The Hard Shoulder she doubts if the State will live up to its obligations in this latest redress scheme.
"The State will fight you tooth and nail, it will that it will not accept any responsibility for what was theirs to own up to," she said.
"The fact that they were able to act so quickly when I last in the Supreme Court and they were able to write out so quickly to other people with civil cases pending proves that they can act quickly.
"Yet 10 and a half years after my judgement they have been drawn to where they are now - literally by the scruff of their neck - they have not been willing at any stage to do what was right on a wholesome scale.
"It is only by somebody who is really strong enough to go and keep going and that is not easy."
'They let them down'
Ms O'Keeffe said promises about inquiries and compensation have been made before.
"We heard it before from Taoiseach of the day Leo Varadkar in the Dáil, where he said, 'We let them down once, we let them down a second time, we will not let them down a third time' - but they did.
"They let them down very badly and even worse than ever the third time.
"It is past time to get it right - they must get it right," she added.
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