IRELAND
The Journal
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND State agencies used Magdalene laundries to do their washing over a period of many years, the report into the laundries has found.
The report notes that the State giving business to the laundries could be considered “indirect financial support”.
However it notes that there was no evidence to suggest a “deliberate policy or preference by State agencies for use of Magdalene or other institutional laundries over non-religious-operated laundries”.
Where the Magdalene Laundries won a contract from the State, it was either the only or else the cheapest tender that was submitted.
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