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Written Answers — Departmental Records: Departmental Records (27 May 2010): Dermot Ahern: The majority of females who entered or were placed in Magdalen Laundries in the period did so without any direct involvement of the State. Magdalen laundries were not State institutions and their records are a matter for the individual religious congregations concerned. A small proportion of entrants to Magdalen Laundries came through the criminal justice system. While my Department,...
Written Answers — Departmental Records: Departmental Records (27 May 2010): Michael Kennedy: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason his Department does not have records of girls referred to Magdalene laundries, in view of the facts that the Department of Education and Skills acknowledges that girls were placed in Magdalene laundries as late as 1970 and that the Department of Health and Children paid capitation grants for problem girls who...

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