IRELAND
Irish Independent
20 February 2013
A compensation scheme is to be set up to make payments to them based on their unpaid work in the Magdalene Laundries.
The size of the payments will be determined by the recommendations made by Judge John Quirke, the president of the Law Reform Commission.
He will have to examine what to do in the cases of women who have already got compensation being transferred from an industrial school to a Magdalene Laundry.
He will have to give advice on other state supports required by the Magdalene women, such as medical cards, mental health services and counselling services.
And he will also have to come up with a method of ensuring the compensation payments to British and Irish-based Magdalene survivors do not affect their social welfare payments.
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