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A Government minister has said a Dáil motion calling for an apology and redress for victims of the Magdalene Laundries was “premature”.
Labour TD Kathleen Lynch told the House that an inter-departmental committee, chaired by Senator Martin McAleese, will report by the end of the year, allowing for a proper debate and a Government response.
Proposing the motion, Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald said time is not on the side of the Magdalene women.
She said it was not in doubt that there was cruelty against them, and State collusion with religous orders who “enslaved them for commercial gain
She said the McAleese committee was quantifying the extent of the collusion, but the existence of collusion and cruelty was established.
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