Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am very keen that this issue be dealt with. The principal recommendation is that my Department should, with a view towards admitting them to the scheme, fully reconsider the applications of women who worked in one of the listed laundries but were officially recorded as having been admitted to a training centre or industrial school located in, attached to or on the grounds of one of the laundries. Deputy O'Callaghan will accept that that raises a series of issues as to the scope, purpose and administration of the scheme and in terms of how we might best move matters forward. The Ombudsman's recommendation refers to applications already received relating to a training or an industrial school located in the same grounds as one of the 12 named institutions. However, it could not be restricted to existing applicants and would, therefore, at a minimum, extend the scheme to other institutions.

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