Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Last week I raised the matter of the interdepartmental report on the Magdalene laundries with the Taoiseach but he did not have any specifics for the date of the receipt of the report or its publication. Will he confirm now that this report will go to Cabinet on 5 February? Will he inform us whether his colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, has received any part or parts of this report? When does he imagine it will be given to him in full and will it go before the next Cabinet meeting? When will it published? Following on from that, we will need to move speedily on to a full apology for the women affected and the full redress for their real suffering for which the State is culpable.

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