just make sure this time the church pays the whole whack

I think both State and the religious orders are jointly responsible but as it seems the religious orders were the ones who financially benefitted from the labours of these girls and women, I think they should bear the bulk of any compensation that is paid out.

It would be only fair that each of the women are made as financially, physically and psychologically comfortable in their senior years as is possible. In no way can anything be done now to make up what was stolen from them in their youths but every effort should be made to alleviate them of any financial worries and allow them to live the remainder of their lives in comfort.

I hope this govt doesn’t do a Fianna Fail and let the religious orders off the hook for a pittance. Tell them not to bother with a retirement gift for the pope and to pay the women they abused as slaves the wages and pension contributions they’re owed.

No matter how much they get its not enough. When you look at the shit they had to go through and the hours they worked its only going to be a small consolation. They can’t get their lives back . The church have a lot to answer for in this country , they abused young and old . No organisation should have that kind of power . Can anyone imagine being sent to those places by the people that supposedly love you the most and leave you there for years.

I do believe these women should recieve a payment for what they were true and the unpaid work they done, but what I wonder is where does the compensation stop. I like many of my generation was beat every day at school, humiliated, shamed and had my early life shaped in a negative way by cruel and at least one psychotic teacher. At some point you have to say this is who I am, This is where I came from, Yes an apology would be lovely but if we go down the road of trying to financially compensate everybody, it’s impossible. Everything is not about money.

I thought the apology was about admitting a terrible wrong had been done not about the pursuit of money……….

What a mess.

As long as the victims are happy with this, that should be all that matters. I think the compensation should be payed jointly by the Church and the State because between them they carried this out hand-in-hand.

Where will all this end. Will the children that suffered corporal punishment in schools get an apology. Horrific abuse handed down to kids up and down the country. I witnessed and received beatings from teachers working for the church and state. Im sorry but I don’t want my children to have to pay for these abuses.

The survivors of the Industrial schools supposedly received 600 million, but in actual fact the sum they received was 100 million. The state and the church operated a clawback system. They had control of the funds, and used the remaining 500 million to set up educational and counselling services, and built a hospital.

1st blame goes to their parents/family who in the majority of cases were the ones to send them there. Laundries were just figurativly and literal cleasing society stain

The Vatican should pay, or the Irish church. Not the government or taxpayers.

Pity the redress board didn’t make this large payment to people too .. They deserve it and more .

people get unbelievable amounts of money for hurt feelings these days or they claim they were overlooked for promotion for any other reason than they did not deserve to be promoted! state abuse victims appear to be at the bottom of the pile when it comes to both justice and compensation.

They should all get at least a million euro at least for ruining their lives.

never getting married in a church . u hate nuns and priests its all blabber. they did bad to boys aswell. i feel sick thinking about it. what i cant understand is why was it all the girls fault and not the fellas it takes two to tango . idiots.

The McAleese Report has washed the Magdalene Laundries Whiter than a Magdalene Laundry Sheet; With the “Missing” record has set up the Government for another Indemnity Deal!

The Indemnity Deal was Unconstitutional and was never debated in the Dail?
Yet it still Stands Unchallenged??

The Government should have held their hands up and Commissioned an Inquiry? The Religious Orders still have a Stranglehold over the HSE?

They haven’t even had the decency to finish paying for the last Indemnity Deal! Unless I am mistaken?

As for a Government Apology I hope it is better and more Sincere than the Last one?

Bertie Ahern Apologised to Survivors of the Industrial Schools then opened International Christian Brothers Centre. This renders his Apology Worthless! http://bit.ly/JLiBqi

same Irish politicial partys then as now guilty involved

“Clerical abuse #Ryan Report congregations worth “20 billion” “? The Nuns Can Pay!! http://bit.ly/Z37Qe7

I understand that the situation must have been horrible for these survivors. But unfortunately the state is broke and we can’t afford to offer compensation now, savings would have to be made elsewhere.