Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Today is the 20th anniversary of the election of Ms Mary Robinson as the first woman President. It is also the day on which the Irish Human Rights Commission called on the Government to immediately establish a statutory inquiry into the treatment of women and girls in the Magdalen laundries. Does the Government intend to accede to the commission's request to establish such an inquiry?

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