Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan is bring to Cabinet proposals for broader access to the Magdalene redress scheme. In the report, Ombudsman Peter Tyndall found that some women who worked in the Magdalene laundries had been wrongly refused access to the scheme. Mr Flanagan and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met Mr Tyndall last week in relation to the report. “The narrow interpretation [of the scheme by the department] is difficult to account for,” Mr Tyndall said. Finally he recommended, as it was unlikely this was not the last such redress scheme given Ireland’s “difficult past,” that guidelines be produced centrally for the operation of future restorative justice or redress schemes.

Source: The Irish Times April 16, 2018 20:37 UTC