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Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017): Kathleen Funchion: ...The message that comes across is one of "get over it and move on", which, unfortunately, is the way we deal with everything in this country. How many times have we debated mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and so on in this House, all of us using words such as "terrible" and "horrible" in that regard yet we are allowing similar things to happen. This is happening under our...
Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017): Mick Barry: ...for a number of years and the numbers should be easy to calculate - one could even err on the side of caution. The criteria are very narrow and often rigidly applied. For somebody who suffered in a Magdalen laundry, the act of washing clothes and putting them on the line brings back all kinds of memories. It would be a positive thing to be able to buy a washing machine but it would not...

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