Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

On the same issue, I ask the Taoiseach if he will welcome the finding by the Irish Human Rights Commission that a statutory inquiry should be conducted by the Government. While I note the Attorney General will examine the commission's report, I ask the Taoiseach if he will agree that the survivors of the Magdalene laundries, whose case we have raised previously in the House, should receive an apology from the State and that a distinct redress scheme should be established for them.

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