Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman

9:00 am

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I know the Ombudsman made the point that this process was not established until after a year following the first applications to the scheme and that most of the decisions on a majority of cases would have already been made prior to the establishment of that interview process. Could Mr. Martin comment on that? He mentioned that 73 people were interviewed and of those 69 got redress. How many of those people got redress for the time that they claimed to be in a Magdalen laundry? Did they all get the full amount of the time they claimed to be in the laundry, or was it reduced in the context of this dispute over time? How many of the people interviewed and in general got redress for the timeframe they claimed to be in the laundry?

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