The Spiritans religious order has said it hopes to provide further details on a redress scheme for victims and survivors of abuse at its schools by the end of the summer.
Earlier this year, advocacy group Restore Together called on the Spiritans to implement a redress scheme no later than June for those who suffered child sex abuse.
Restore Together represents many of the survivors of child sex abuse suffered at schools run by the Spiritan Order, including Blackrock College.
In today's open letter, leader of the Catholic order in Ireland Fr Brendan Carr said the process to set up a redress scheme has been slow.
"It has been very frustrating for victims/survivors, and their advocates, who have shown immeasurable patience, and it is important to acknowledge that it is the cooperation and commitment of such advocates that has guided and shaped a 'victim-centred' restorative process, including a just formula for redress to those waiting," he said.
Fr Carr said finding the funds for the scheme is the main reason for the delay and structures have been set up to address the issue.
"The Province has accelerated our efforts by establishing a dedicated financial taskforce, the Finance Advisory Team, with the expertise to lead a strategic restructuring of the Province's assets.
"This taskforce is working to fast-track the development of sustainable funding streams, including immediate and medium-term provisions for redress," he said.
The letter also reminded victims that free counselling can be accessed through their safeguarding office.
Redress 'tentatively' welcomed
Philip Feddis of Restore Together said the group "tentatively" welcomed the religious organisation's commitment to paying redress to survivors of abuse in their schools.
Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, Mr Feddis said that he wants to see "concrete action" being taken next.
"What we are looking for is for it to be victim-centered and victim-led," he said.
"That doesn't mean that they come along and they ask for opinions, they ask for input; it means that the decision makers are those who are actually impacted by the abuse, so that's friends, family and the individuals themselves."
Mr Feddis said that he wants to see immediacy in redress for victims.
"Everybody is aware the Church has got a lot of assets in this country, we recognise that some of them are tied up, but we all know that there are financial mechanisms for releasing money immediately, so we don’t think that that is an excuse.
"They've come out with a statement; they've said that their whole community is behind doing it, now what we need to do is make sure that collectively... we start working immediately to start building what's necessary, in order to provide healing for the people who are impacted."
He said that redress is "hugely important" for victims.
"The money is never going to pay for the damage which has been caused to anybody, but it is very significant.
"It's a way of demonstrating who was right and who was wrong."
Mr Feddis said that Restore Together and the Spiritans have been having meetings every two weeks for almost five years and described the organisation as "honourable."
"The problem has been the speed, and the problem is, that it’s very easy to find excuses for not doing things.
"We believe something will definitely happen, it is whether it is the right thing, and we have the opportunity... to create an exemplar.
"The exemplar would be what would be best for everybody involved - for them, for Irish community, for society, but most of all for the victim survivors; we believe that the opportunity is still there to implement that exemplar if they listen to what is required."
He said that the "most important" fact to come out of all of this is the lessons learnt from it.
"Paedophiles are still out there ... Because of the three or four or five years that we've lost in debating as to how this could happen, we've lost the opportunity to start teaching kids and learning the lessons so that we can protect our kids from this happening to them again."