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The Government has been challenged to honour its promise to provide survivors of Magdalene laundries with the healthcare services recommended in the Quirke report 18 months ago.
Advocates for the women say new draft legislation represents an unacceptable paring back of what the Government promised as part of the women’s redress package.
It is almost two years since Taoiseach Enda Kenny apologised emotionally to the 10,000-plus women who he said had been incarcerated and socially suffocated in Magdalene laundries in Ireland since 1922.
Mr Justice John Quirke was then tasked with designing a restorative justice scheme, which the Government accepted.
It included a special medical card which had originally been designed to help survivors of the Hepatitis-C scandal.
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