Report of the Inter-departmental Committee to Establish the Facts of State Involvement with the Magdalen Laundries

Department of Justice and Equality
February 5, 2013

http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/MagdalenRpt2013

[Introduction by the Chair, Senator Martin McAleese ]

[Executive Summary]

[Acknowledgements]

Part I - Mandate, historical context and archives

[Chapter 1: Terminology]

[Chapter 2: Establishment, membership and mandate of the Committee ]

[Chapter 3: History of the Magdalen Laundries and institutions within the scope of the Report]

[Chapter 4: Working methods, procedures and data protection]

[Chapter 5: Relevant legislation]

[Chapter 6: Archive of the Committee's work]

Part II – Statistical analysis

[Chapter 7: Sources and methodology for statistical analysis]

[Chapter 8: Findings of statistical analysis ]

Part III –State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries

[Chapter 9: Routes of entry to the Magdalen Laundries (A): Criminal Justice System ]

[Chapter 10: Routes of entry to the Magdalen Laundries (B): Industrial and Reformatory Schools ]

[Chapter 11: Routes of entry to the Magdalen Laundries (C): Health authorities and Social Services]

[Chapter 12: The Factories Acts and Regulation of the Workplace]

[Chapter 13: Financial (A): State Funding and Financial Assistance]

[Chapter 14: Financial (B): State contracts for laundry services ]

[Chapter 15: Financial (C): Taxation, Commercial Rates, Social Insurance and other]

[Chapter 16: Death registration, burial and exhumation]

[Chapter 17: Other areas of State involvement ]

Part IV – Other frequently asked questions relating to the operation of the Magdalen Laundries

[Chapter 18: Non-state routes of entry to the Magdalen Laundries]

[Chapter 19: Living and working conditions ]

[Chapter 20: Financial viability of the Magdalen Laundries]

Appendices

[Index of Appendices]

[Appendix 1: Interim Report]

[Appendix 2: Maps ]

[Appendix 3: List compiled by Maria Luddy]

[Appendix 4: Statistical analysis]

[Appendix 5: 1941 Memo by Probation Office]

[Appendix 6: Industrial Schools circular 1924 ]

[Appendix 7: 1942 Education Memo on charges involving immorality ]

[Appendix 8: 1933 Industrial School Rules ]

[Appendix 9: 1906 list of institutions accepting inspection ]

[Appendix 10: Sample Factories Act forms ]

[Appendix 11: 1965 Industry and Commerce letter ]

[Appendix 12: Green Book extracts ]

[Appendix 13: 1969 letter on social insurance ]

[Appendix 14: Rationing Circular ]

[Appendix 15: 1942 letter on rationing ]