IRELAND
Irish Times
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
SHOCK AND disappointment has followed the announcement yesterday that a report from the interdepartmental committee on Magdalene laundries will not now be available until later this year. It was due this month.
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter announced he had been advised by Senator Martin McAleese, chairman of the interdepartmental committee, that its final report “will be submitted before the end of the year at the latest”. The committee produced an interim report last October.
Mr McAleese had advised that the committee had made “excellent progress despite the considerable challenges faced”. However, “relevant records continue to be identified by Government departments and State agencies and the committee also continues to receive new submissions from representative and advocacy groups”.
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