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Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Department of Justice and Equality

Magdalen Laundries Report

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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526. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of women who died in the Magdalene laundries who were taken home to be buried by their families, as stated in chapter 16, section 34 of the McAleese report. [37317/15]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The available statistics are those in the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries - otherwise known as the McAleese Report - which submitted its report to Government in February 2013. The Report is available on my Department's website - www.justice.ie. That Committee no longer exists and its report does not contain information with regard to the number of women who died in the Magdalen Laundries and were taken home to be buried by their families.

I can advise the Deputy that the Committee's Report did not try to establish a definitive number for deaths that took place in Magdalen Laundries. However, in its summary of findings for Chapter 16 it states that " This Chapter applies only to the small number of women who remained in the Magdalen Laundries until their death or who, after death elsewhere, were buried there. These cases represent approximately 8.8% of the estimated number of women to have been admitted to the Magdalen Laundries"

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