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)
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Does Mr. Tyndall have any idea why these problems arose or did he get any light shed on it? Even if we take the second payment, the residential institutions payments, Mr. Justice Quirke specifically said that should not be included. It was not included at the start but somebody decided to include it and, as Mr. Tyndall said, as a result, people who never got a payment out of that were then excluded from getting any payment. What was the rationale for doing that? What was the mentality around it?