Labour Minister Breaks Ranks to Urge Taoiseach Apology

By Fionnan Sheahan
Irish Independent
February 6, 2013

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/labour-minister-breaks-ranks-to-urge-taoiseach-apology-3378245.html

A LABOUR Party minister has broken ranks and said the Government should make a full apology to survivors of the Magdalene Laundries.

Junior Minister Kathleen Lynch said her "personal opinion" is there should be an apology.

"You have to accept that I can't speak on behalf of the Taoiseach. You have to accept that," she told Today FM.

"I suppose the Government will take that decision and I don't sit around the Cabinet table as I have already said.