Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Ms McPhillips does not need to be familiar with Galway. This is 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 did not just interpret this scheme as excluding someone who had received redress, but also anyone who had been in an institution that had been listed.