Compensation for women excluded from Magdalene Laundries scheme would be €5m: Ombudsman

It would cost up to €5m euro to compensate women who were excluded from a scheme for survivors of Magdalene laundries, it has been revealed.

Ombudsman Peter Tyndall said less than half the 54 million euro originally estimated for redress for the incarceration in Catholic-run workhouses has been paid out.