Just seven women get new Magdalene redress payment

Just seven of the 97 women who applied to the widened Magdalene redress scheme have received a payment.

The scheme was widened in June of last year, following a scathing report by ombudsman Peter Tyndall, which found the Department of Justice had wrongly refused some Magdalene laundry survivors access to redress payments and that the scheme had been maladministered by the Department.