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Fianna Fáil to table motion calling for ‘full and unqualified apology’ to women of Magdalene Laundries
By Ciarán Hanna
Fianna Fáil said they will table a Dáil Motion this week calling for a ‘full and unqualified apology’ to the women of the Magdalene Laundries.
The party responded following the Taoiseach’s initial reaction to the report by outgoing Senator Martin McAleese’s committee, which was published on Tuesday 5th February.
The committee was set up to inquire into the Magdalene laundries and the report found ‘clear evidence of state involvement’ in the religious run laundries.
Senator McAleese and his committee were asked to outline the extent of state involvement and knowledge of the women in these laundries and noted that there was a legal basis for the way the state operated.
In each of the five categories it examined, it found evidence of state involvement, including the 26% of women who werereferred to the laundries by the State.
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