Knowing this Government the victims will have to bring their chequebook.

AND I hope that they will apologise on behalf of the states involvement and assure them that they will also do the decent thing and make sure that this will be top of there list to divide state from church and there will be recriminations for the church also and also that he apologises for the lack of an apology in the Dáil and he will put that right immediately and have it on record in the Dáil by verbally apologising in the Dáil and also admit he omitted to apologise earlier in the week

FFS joe, the survivors want to meet with the govt and that’s going to happen. This gives them the chance to speak up for themselves. Let them have their say. Repeat. Let the survivors speak.

Joe, btw I don’t remember “barbaric” teachings growing up in dublin. I went to mass every Sunday but I must have been asleep during those sermons?!
Enough of your mock outrage.
You are not helping the survivors.

@ Declan Noonan, yes, you are correct. You were asleep.

@ Mari, suffering deserves a direct voice and expression to the decision makers. I would love to see a full, unreserved, candid and sincere apology heartfully made to representatives if the victims. Who cares about legal admissions. Some issues transcend caution, legal liability and reserving of position.

Legally speaking both the State and the Roman Catholic Church are sitting ducks on this.

The facts is that more often than not victims just want a sincere and real apology.

My impression is that an apology may be too late but fair dues to the representatives for their generosity in allowing Mr. Kenny an opportunity to redeem himself partially.

Why should our children and grand children pay for a debt they had nothing to do with a debt heaped upon them by Coke sniffing midgets in a bank that 99% of the country had no account in.I think you will find state collusion in both cases.

Don’t know what planet you have been on for the last few days but the report that was published was about the STATES role in the shameful Magadalene slave camps. By the state we mean IRELAND, ie the government and by association the tax payer. Like it or not that means that the Irish tax payer, thanks to the collusion of a succession of governments of all parties in this disgraceful episode in Irish history IS on the hook for any compensation due to the victims and rightly so. The Irish state was quick to hand over responsibility for these people to the various catholic church orders who in turn operated these slave labour camps with the benefit of the state through laundry contracts etc, the orders too need to be made to pay their half of all the costs, compensation and any other ongoing enquiries or reports that are needed to give the victims justice. Your assertion that the victims are only after cash only highlights your own ignorance of the situation and your lack of empathy towards the victims is nothing short of disgraceful. Your comment is as dumb as your spelling! Maybe you should read up on the facts before you go posting garbage on here in future.

My spelling? ! Maybe you should focus on the content little more and less so on the spelling. After all it is only texting on a phone. By the way I have just asked 6 people and they all agreed no money should be given. Perhaps you just over sensitive?

@mypolitics1 you clearly do not understand your obligations as a citizen of the Irish state. These women were denied their most basic human rights by the church and state. You would deny them their right to justice and compensation also . You are no better than the perpetrators of those crimes. Shame on you! Shame on them!

Tony ‘ol chap if I didnt understand my role as a tax payer living in Ireland then I wouldnt have taken people off the dole and given them full time and permanent employment. You are entitled to your own opinions but you are not entitled to your own facts.

@mypolitics1 As a citizen you are part of this state and you have a duty of care to your fellow citizen . Whether you like it or not those women have to be compensated for the crimes committed
Against them by the state . The state which you are a part of and in which you pay your “taxes” .Now that’s a fact ! Now in my opinion , if someone is of the opinion that these women should be denied compensation and justice by the state then those same people don’t deserve to call themselves citizens of the Irish state and are no better than those people who committed those crimes . That’s just my opinion of course ! By the way well done on creating employment , a truly altruistic act on your behalf no doubt !

You are lucky that 10s of billions of Euros of debt repayment have been dumped on the next generations.

Personally, they were damaged by society. I am over 60 and it was my generation and before who are responsible. I will be very happy to see these victims properly compensated by the State and by the Roman Catholic Church.

This scandal, this slavery continued right up 1996.

@ Tony, excellent reply.

So it’s okay with you, mypolitics1, that women should work as slaves and have received no wages or pension for commercial work they performed? You might want to check your family tree and be sure there are no hidden aunties or grannies there who also appear on the 1901 or 1911 Magdalene Laundry census reports — we wouldn’t want you besmirching your own. Or maybe some of your family members *sent* their own daughters, aunts, mothers or grannies there. You don’t have to shake the tree very hard to find a relation who suffered through a Laundry and worked for no pay. If it was your mother, would you feel the same?