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Departmental Bodies (25 Oct 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...Equality that leaving aside the work of the Inter-Departmental Committee being chaired by Senator Mc Aleese, the action he is taking to progress the issue of restorative justice for women of the Magdalene laundry system; his response to the Restorative Justice and Reparations scheme proposed by the Justice for Magdalenes group; when will the State lead on offering an apology and...

Departmental Bodies (25 Oct 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I wish to acknowledge the work of the Justice for Magdalenes group, the members of which have done tremendous work. They have taken up a cause that nobody else wanted to deal with for a very long time. During the recent theatre festival I attended a play which was based in the Magdalene laundry in Seán MacDermott Street. This was an interactive production so I was there as part of the...

Departmental Bodies (25 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...to his interdepartmental group. Substantial work is ongoing within each Department which can provide any information from its files of any description with regard to the State's contact with the Magdalene laundries going back to 1922. All this information is being compiled. This is very important work because the background, the story of the events that occurred over those years, is...

Departmental Bodies (25 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...girls who resided in the laundries at its meeting on 14 June 2011. As a first step, the Government decided that it was essential to establish fully the true facts and circumstances relating to the Magdalene laundries and a number of actions were agreed. This included the setting up of an interdepartmental committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the laundries, to clarify...