Michael Mullins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I join colleagues in congratulating and complimenting former Senator Martin McAleese and his team on the publication of the report yesterday. The facts and scale of the Magdalen laundries scandal are known. It is appropriate that the Government would take time to analyse the comprehensive report and give its response. It should not be forgotten that this is the first Government in the history of the State to tackle the issue. I remind Senator Ó Domhnaill that his colleagues sat on their backsides for 14 years and did absolutely nothing for those vulnerable people who have suffered so much at the hands of the State.