RTE News
June 15, 2011
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There has been a mixed reaction from survivors' groups to the Government's decision to ask an independently chaired committee of civil servants to 'clarify any State interaction with the Magdalene laundries'.
The Justice for Magdalenes group welcomed the planned meetings, but said it also has an important contribution to make to the inter-departmental committee.
It wants to present evidence detailing what it says is the State's complicity in incarcerating many laundry women and girls.
The Magdalene Survivors Together organisation expressed disappointment that it will take up to three months for the inter-departmental group to deliver an initial report.
It asked how much longer the Government intends to delay justice for the women.
Yesterday's Government decision followed last week's finding by the UN Committee Against Torture that the State failed to protect girls and women involuntarily confined in the Magdalene laundries up until the 1980s.
Ministers Alan Shatter and Kathleen Lynch are to meet the four orders of nuns that ran the laundries and survivors' groups to discuss issues such as making restitution to survivors.
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