Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is not the case. The Ombudsman has presented very strong evidence that the Department of Justice and Equality was well aware of the links between the units attached to the Magdalen laundries and the idea of people working in one of the laundries but being admitted to or resident in an adjacent building. The Ombudsman has presented very clearly how that does not refer to new institutions. It put the view that the phrase that established the scheme, "admitted to and worked in", was never defined in legislation or by the Minister and that somebody in the Department of Justice and Equality chose to interpreted the phrases "admitted to and worked in" in this narrow way. Conall Ó Fátharta from the Irish Examinerhas done some Trojan work on this. An example is that it has been established that An Grianán and High Park were the exact same institution for all intents and purposes. The HSE even provided records to the McAleese inquiry to verify those points. Who decided that "admitted to and worked in" would be interpreted in the way the Department is interpreting it and saying that otherwise the scheme would have to have been changed?