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

Mr. Jimmy Martin:

Let me clarify a technical point. Mr. Justice Quirke was asked a specific question about a specific group of women who would meet the other criteria, that they be in a Magdalen institution but getting money from the Residential Institutions Redress Board, even though they had not been in an industrial school. That is the specific question he was asked and answered. He did not address the broader question of a double payment. Our understanding at the time was that he had not looked at the question of a double payment for those who had been in industrial schools. He only looked at the Magdalen institutions, the ones referred to in the McAleese report, not other institutions.

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