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[the report – Irish Human Rights Commission]

Patsy McGarry

Tue, Jun 18, 2013

The Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has repeated its 2010 call for a statutory inquiry into the Magdalene laundries on the lines of the Murphy commission which investigated the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese.

However, it has also insisted that whatever redress scheme may have been recommended to the Government by Mr Justice John Quirke should go ahead immediately. Mr Justice Quirke’s proposals are to be published “shortly”, according to a spokeswoman for the Department of Justice.

Follow-up
In its Follow-up Report on State Involvement with Magdalen Laundries, published today, the commission said “the State failed in its obligations to protect the human rights of girls and women in the laundries”.

It called for “a comprehensive redress scheme that provides individual compensation, restitution and rehabilitation…