Justice Department misses Magdalene deadline

The Department of Justice has missed the deadline to respond to one of the Ombudsman’s key recommendations about the Magdalene Redress scheme.

Following his scathing report into the scheme in November, which found the department had wrongly refused some Magdalene Laundry survivors access to redress payments, Ombudsman Peter Tyndall made a number of recommendations to the department.

Principal among these was that the department fully reconsider, with a view to accepting, the applications of women who worked in one of the listed laundries but who were recorded as having been “admitted” to a training centre or industrial school in the same building, attached to or located on the grounds.