Magdalene women are being forced accept smaller compensation payments
because the State believes the religious orders over survivors
regarding how long they spent in the laundries.
In a strongly worded speech at the opening of the National Women’s Council of Ireland’s new offices, co-founder of Justice For Magdalenes Research (JFMR) Claire McGettrick said that despite Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s apology, the State was exercising a “contemptible” attitude to survivors which valued “damage limitation and optics before justice and fairness”.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/state-attitude-to-magdalene-women-is-contemptible-297707.html
In a strongly worded speech at the opening of the National Women’s Council of Ireland’s new offices, co-founder of Justice For Magdalenes Research (JFMR) Claire McGettrick said that despite Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s apology, the State was exercising a “contemptible” attitude to survivors which valued “damage limitation and optics before justice and fairness”.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/state-attitude-to-magdalene-women-is-contemptible-297707.html