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:
You are right, Chairman. If, for example, there is a significant number of women living in the UK they would get the full weekly costs but the health system is probably better than here so it does not affect them. For a lot of the women in Ireland they are probably already entitled to a non-contributory pension so the only increase for them is to go from that to a contributory pension, but that was presumably built into the costs by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I do not have any exact details on how much the scheme costs in social protection terms or in health terms.
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