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The Department of Justice and Equality has received hundreds of telephone calls from people signalling their interest in getting help from a Government fund for former residents of the State’s Magdalene Laundries.
The Department of Justice has also said the women and girls who worked in the Magdalene Laundries without pay arrangements “simply cannot be applied to the completely different circumstances” that applied in maternity and infant homes, including the Bethany Home.
A spokesperson for the Department said that the issues relating to the Bethany Home relate primarily to health care and children.
The spokesperson said that the Government is conscious of these issues, and that Minister for Justice Alan Shatter, and Minister of State at the Department of Health, Kathleen Lynch, are looking at the matter.
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