Draft proposals on a review of the State’s redress scheme for victims of child sexual abuse in schools are expected to go to the Minister for Education in the coming weeks.

A cohort of women who worked in the High Park Magdalene laundry has expressed fears they will not receive full redress due to a dispute over whether they worked in the laundry after 1980.

Over five years on from Enda Kenny’s State apology to the Magdalene Laundry women, the issue of the redress scheme to compensate those women is still making the headlines.

Women wrongly excluded from the Magdalene laundries redress scheme must provide “records” showing how long they worked in the institution before receiving any redress payments.

The chairman of a Dáil committee has said he does not believe the Catholic Church will hand over hundreds of millions of euro in abuse compensation to the State by Christmas.

Women who worked in St Finbarr’s Industrial School and Marymount Training Centre in Cork are among those who may benefit from the Government decision to extend its Magdalene laundries redress scheme to 14 additional institutions.

The revelation that potentially thousands of people may have had their births falsified so they could be illegally adopted may have profound legal consequences — including for inheritance rights.

More than €193.5m has been paid out in legal costs relating to applications for the Government’s redress scheme for victims of institutional child abuse.

Yesterday’s decision by an Australian court that Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell must face trial on charges of historical sexual offences makes him the most senior Catholic official to be tried on such allegations.

The Department of Justice has been accused of an “utterly scandalous” approach in wrongly refusing redress to some women who worked in Magdalene Laundries.

The Government should compensate people who bought Celtic Tiger homes which have been found to have significant defects, an Oireachtas committee has recommended.

The fight for women who worked in Magdalene laundries but had been excluded from redress has finally been recognised in a report that criticises the Department of Justice’s handling of the scheme, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

For more than 200 years, from the 18th century to the late 20th century, so-called ‘fallen’ women and their children endured the horrors of the Magdalene laundries. 

A year-long delay in compensating tracker mortgage holders who were penalised or overcharged is “not acceptable”, TDs have said.

The Department of Education will be grilled by TDs next month on whether it really expects religious orders to pay everything owed under a 2002 deal on the costs of redress for institutional abuse.

Given the chance to highlight victims’ stories, the McAleese committee sided with powerful institutions once more, writes Simon McGarr

Justice for Magdalenes Research says justice not only requires prompt provision of compensation, pensions, healthcare, and other benefits, but also the truth about what happened in the laundries

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.

The Department of Justice has defended asking victims of the Magdalene laundries to sign waivers accepting “all the terms” of the a redress scheme which it has yet to fully legislate for.