Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

To go back to another point in respect of expenditure of the Magdalen fund, there was an underspend in 2014. The explanation given for that underspend was that fewer new applications were received in 2015 than was expected. A number of applications could not be processed as further investigation was necessary in order to make a determination in those cases. In some cases there is a shortage of information. I am working with one individual who is very dissatisfied that she is not being believed at this point, because there are no records that back up where she was. She spend four or five years in a Magdalen laundry but she was told that she spent six months there. She has spent her whole life in institutional care. Are there many other cases in which there is that kind of dispute about where people were and where people will not accept what they feel is not truthful? Are there cases where people who have been denied justice for their whole lives feel that the lack of records sides with the institutions rather than with the individual?