IRELAND
Irish Times
The Taoiseach and Tánaiste will meet the survivors of the Magdalene laundries next week, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said.
Mr Gilmore was responding to criticism of the Government’s response to the report by Dr Martin McAleese into the laundries, which was published earlier this week.
One of the survivors of the laundries, Maureen Sullivan, had said no Government politician had come to her or the other women with an apology.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland today, Mr Gilmore said he and the Taoiseach intended to meet the survivors next week. “We intend to have a direct discussion with them about what their needs are, about how government should respond to this report,” he said. “These women have suffered. What they endured was wrong. What happened in this country over those decades was appalling and this Government has heard these women and we have taken what they have to say seriously.”
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