State to Finally Compensate Women It Ignored for Decades

By Conall O Fatharta
Irish Examiner
June 27, 2013

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/state-to-finally-compensate-women-it-ignored-for-decades-235236.html


Along with a raft of medical and pension entitlements, the scheme prepared by president of the Law Reform Commission Justice John Quirke recommends survivors receive a sliding scale of payments depending on how long they spent in the institution.

The payments will range from ˆ11,500 for women who spent three months or less in a laundry, to a maximum of ˆ100,000 for those who were in a laundry for 10 years or more.

Justice For Magdalenes Research and the Irish Women Survivors Network based in Britain broadly welcomed the proposals, as did Bernadette Fahy who works with and provides support and assistance to a number of Magdalene survivors.

However, Magdalene Survivors Together was deeply critical of the proposals.

The group want all of the women to receive a basic payment of ˆ50,000, with extra compensation for the work they carried out.