IRELAND
Irish Times
MARIE O’HALLORAN and MICHAEL O’REGAN
Survivors of the Magdalene laundries want a compensation system that is simple, effective, non-adversarial, non litigious and compassionate, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told the Dáil.
He said the women were very strong about not wanting a repetition of the adversarial redress board system that operated for victims of child clerical sex abuse.
And he said the Government could consider the issue of the Summer Hill home in Wexford in due course.
Mr Kenny also told Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams the Minister for Justice was looking at the question of the Bethany Homes. They were not laundries but dealt with health and welfare in respect of young women and their children.
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