IRELAND
Irish Times
PATSY McGARRY
The president of the Law Reform Commission, Mr Justice John Quirke, will make recommendations within three months on supports the State can offer women who were in the Magdalene laundries and in the training centre on Dublin’s Stanhope Street, the Taoiseach has announced.
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said last night that when it came to funding such assistance for the women, there was a role “for the religious orders which ran these laundries, to make a fair contribution, along with the taxpayer”.
He said: “These laundries were private businesses, run by those orders, which benefited from the unpaid labour of the women committed to them. The past does not belong to the State alone.”
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