Calls for full State apology mount as Shatter asks for time to think

IRELAND
Herald

Michael Lavery– 06 February 2013

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny, pictured, was under increasing pressure today to issue a full State apology.

Survivors expressed their disappointment and anger at the Taoiseach’s response to the report’s findings.

The issue was due to be raised in the Dail today and at Fine Gael and Labour parliamentary party meetings this evening.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter said today the Government needed to reflect on all the information in the report.

The State needed to see what could be done to help individuals whose lives had been “blighted and burdened” by long stays in the laundries, he said.

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