Concern has been expressed that any evidence given to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission is not admissible in any future criminal proceedings.

Sixteen survivors of the Magdalene Laundries have sought a review of the amount of compensation they have been offered by the State.

Less than one-third of Magdalene Laundry survivors have received compensation from the State — one year after Taoiseach Enda Kenny apologised to victims in the Dáil.

Magdalene survivors living outside the State will not be entitled to health benefits in their country of residence but would have to return here to avail of promised healthcare under legislation being drafted by the Department of Justice.

A Government-agreed compensation scheme for women who worked in a Magdalene laundry has been rejected by the campaign group Magdalene Survivors Together.

Some survivors of the Magdalene laundries will be paid tax free compensation before Christmas, it has been revealed.

Magdalene laundries survivors are calling on all Irish citizens to boycott mass and all church collections this weekend.

The Government has ruled out legal action to force religious orders to contribute to a compensation fund for survivors of the Magdalene Laundries.

The Cabinet has criticised a refusal by religious orders to pay into a compensation fund for Magdalene Laundry survivors.

President Michael D Higgins has told survivors of the Magdalene Laundries they suffered an enormous wrong at the hands of the State.

A memorial garden or museum is to to be erected in Dublin to honour women who survived the Magdalene Laundries, it has been announced.

After decades of being ignored, survivors of the Magdalene Laundries have finally been offered a compensation scheme by the State for their years of slave labour.

There was a mixed reaction among Magdalene Laundry survivors and representative groups to the recommendations in the Quirke Report.

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A commission of inquiry into State involvement in the Magdalene Laundries should still be established by the Government because the focus of the McAleese report was too narrow, a leading human rights group has claimed.

Kathleen Whelan was one of about a dozen former Magdalene laundry survivors who travelled to Cork’s City Hall to meet the Lord Mayor as he signed a book of apologies for the women.

The Department of Justice has said it has received the report about a potential redress scheme for survivors of the Magdalene laundries.

The survivors advocacy group, Justice for Magdalenes, has announced the end of its political campaign as its twin objectives of an official state apology and the establishment of a compensation scheme have been achieved.

Almost 500 survivors of Magdalene Laundries have applied to be included in the planned compensation fund.

The first of the Magdalene advocacy groups is to meet Mr Justice John Quirke on Tuesday to discuss the redress scheme for survivors of Magdalene Laundries.

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Following the Taoiseach’s apology this week, the Government is to make €250,000 immediately available to UK-based survivors of Magdalene laundries and industrial schools.

Up to 200 women contacted the Department of Justice for information on the Magdalene redress scheme in the 24 hours after the Taoiseach made his groundbreaking apology to the women for the State’s role in their hurt.

There were scenes of joy and gratitude outside Leinster House last night as victims cheered and whooped following the Taoiseach’s apology for the State and the people of Ireland’s involvement in the Magdalene laundries.

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Survivors of the Magdalene laundries expect the Government to make an unreserved apology today on behalf of the State for what happened in the facilities.

Survivors of the Magdalene laundries have said they expect to be told details of a compensation scheme alongside an anticipated state apology by the Government.

Former residents of Magdalene laundries said that a process of compensation amounting to more than €100m should be set up within a month and wound up by August, so as not to allow the issue drag on any longer.

Former residents of the Magdalene Laundries said they expect to get a full state apology for what happened, following a “teary” three-hour meeting with the Taoiseach and Tánaiste.

An apology for the State’s role in the Magdalene Laundries would be “an enormous step forward”, say victims who believe it would allow the healing process to begin.

Women who worked in the Magdalene laundries who met the Taoiseach today say they are increasingly hopeful that he will issue a State apology.

Women who worked in Magdalene laundries are to meet the Taoiseach today to further press for a state apology for their treatment.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore will meet with survivors of the Magdalene Laundries today to hear their stories.

Survivors of the Magdalene Laundries have demanded a meeting with Enda Kenny as the Taoiseach’s refusal to apologise on behalf of the State for their suffering plunged the Coalition into chaos.

Mary Smith met Enda Kenny in 2009. He was “practically crying” when he heard her story of being dumped in the Magdalene Laundry in Sunday’s Well, Cork by the “cruelty man”.

Victims groups have accused the McAleese committee of not being “transparent” by springing interviews on survivors without prior knowledge and weakening the inquiry by not issuing a public call for victims to come forward.

The McAleese report into the Magdalene Laundries does admit that the State was complicit in sending women to and keeping them at the laundries, but it clearly plays down the harsh, brutal regime that survivors have long reported ruled there.

Survivors of Catholic-run workhouses in Ireland are awaiting an apology from state and church over their forced detention in the institutions.

Campaigners fear many of the survivors of the Magdalene laundries will be dead before the State compensates the estimated 1,000 women who were locked up by the nuns.

TOMORROW’S Magdalene laundries’ report is the last chance the 1,000 or so survivors still alive have to get the public vindication they crave.

Survivors of the Magdalene Laundries are accusing government ministers of abandoning them by not implementing a reconciliation process.

MAGDALENE laundry survivors have called for an apology as well as basic compensation from the state in the form of a pension.