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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move on to the Magdalen fund. Can the witnesses provide the committee with an up-to-date position on the 19 cases in respect of applicants with capacity issues? I think there were 25 other cases on hand at the end of 2016. Can we have the up-to-date position on them? Can the witnesses tell us how many applications have been received in total, how many have been successful and what the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

...they have capacity or else they have been made wards of court. As things stand, there are 15 cases in which the women concerned lack capacity. This brings me to the developments in relation to the Magdalen scheme. The Ombudsman issued a report last November which was critical in some respects of the operation of the scheme. He made a number of recommendations, two of which are being...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It was a missed opportunity and I use the phrase carefully. I will come to the Magdalen laundries matter and an opportunity lost in a moment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...all these reports and learning about openness, accountability and change and about moving quickly. That would be the purpose of all of this. This leads me into the opportunity lost for the Magdalen laundries. On the factual side, there have been 691 awards, 106 refused, 15 are outstanding in respect of capacity and there are, I think, 25 others. Are there others to come forward? Has...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...if she attended. For example, Lenaboy industrial school in Galway was listed under the redress board. If someone who attended it did not make a claim to the board but had subsequently gone to the Magdalen laundry in Galway, that person would be excluded under this scheme.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...about the principle of the matter. I am giving a particular example in order to simplify. There was an industrial school at Lenaboy in Galway. Some of the people who resided there ended up in a Magdalen laundry. According to Mr. Justice Quirke, if someone attended an institution and got redress, she should not have her separate time spent in a Magdalen laundry excluded. The Department...