'Bank Law in Hours but Magdalenes Have to Wait'

By Conall O Fatharta
Irish Examiner
February 10, 2013

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/bank-law-in-hours-but-magdalenes-have-to-wait-222042.html

Justice for Magdalenes have questioned how the Government can pass legislation to liquidate a bank in a matter of hours but need yet more time to issue an apology to Magdalene survivors.

Claire McGettrick of JFM questioned why the Government needed time to reflect on a report which categorically stated that the State was complicit in all areas of the operation of the Magdalene laundries.

She said the Government obviously found it easier to push through a piece of legislation in the Dáil in a matter of hours than to offer an apology to a small group of women.

“It’s clear that the Government was able to stay up all night to liquidate a bank but couldn’t find the time to apologise to a small group of vulnerable women, some of whom are in cold houses and in poverty. It says it all really,” she said.