CHAPTER 7: EX GRATIA ‘REDRESS’

127n2 (225) – Alan Shatter, letter to Mr Justice Quirke, 20 February 2013.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/127n2-225.pdf

131n23 (226) – Email from Katherine O’Donnell to JFM, ‘Re: Letter to survivors’, 13 March 2013.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/131n23-226.pdf

133n32 (226) – Brenda McVeigh, Department of Finance, memo to Jimmy Martin, 16 August 2013. This record was generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/133n32-226.pdf

133n33 (226)Report of the Inter Departmental Group on the Implementation of the Recommendations of Judge Quirke contained in his report ‘On the establishment of an ex gratia Scheme and related matters for the benefit of those women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries’. September 2013.  These records were generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/133n33-226-.pdf

135n40 (227) – Moling Ryan, email to Jimmy Martin, 8 July 2013. This record was generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

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135n42 (227) – Maeve O’Rourke, Email to Ombudsman, ‘Magdalene Ex Gratia Scheme: Ongoing Problems’, 6 June 2019,

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/135n42-227_2.pdf

Justice for Magdalenes, letter to Frances Fitzgerald, 1 September 2014.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/135n42-227.pdf

135n43 (227)IDG Report, 3, 4; Minutes of the First Meeting of the Inter-Department Committee on Implementation of Quirke Report – Magdalen Laundries (membership), Thursday 4 July 2013, 10am in Montague Court. These records were generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

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136n47 (227) – Mary Christian, letter to Minister for Justice and Equality, 25 June 2013; Sr Bernadette McNally, letter to Mr Jimmy Martin, Assistant Secretary, Department of Justice and Equality, 27 June 2013; Sr Bernadette McNally, letter to Mr Jimmy Martin, Assistant Secretary, Department of Justice and Equality, 2 August 2013; Sr Sheila Murphy, letter to the Minister for Justice and Equality, 28 June 2013; Sr Sheila Murphy, letter to the Minister for Justice and Equality, 13 August 2013; Sr Margaret Casey, email to James Martin,1 July 2013; Sr Margaret Casey, letter to Christopher Quattrociocchi, Private Secretary to the Minister for Justice and Equality, 20 August 2013, This correspondence was generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/136n47-227.pdf

136n56 (228) – Letter from Eamonn Molloy, Assistant Secretary General, Department of the Taoiseach, to Maeve O’Rourke, 13 November 2018 (Ref FOI/2018/0351). This record was generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/136n56-228.pdf

See JFMR Briefing Note Re McAleese Archive for further details of our efforts to access these records.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/136n56-228_2.pdf and

138n57 (228) – Eamonn Molloy, letter to O’Rourke, 25 September, 2018. URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/138n57-228.pdf

140n75 (229) – McDonagh, Gerry, Prisons and Probation Policy Division, to the Secretary General and Jimmy Martin, 29 May 2013. This record was generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

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141n80 (229) – Justice for Magdalenes, letter to Frances Fitzgerald, 1 September 2014. See n42.

141n82 (229) – Justice for Magdalenes, letter to Frances Fitzgerald, 1 September 2014. See n42.

141n84 (229) – JFMR, Notes, Meeting with Minister Frances Fitzgerald. 20 October 2014.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/141n84-229.pdf

141n85 (229) – Maeve O’Rourke, Claire McGettrick, Mari Steed, Katherine O’Donnell and James M Smith, letter to Minister Frances Fitzgerald, TD, 19 November 2014.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/141n85-229-.pdf

141n86 (229) – JFMR, Notes, Meeting with Minister Frances Fitzgerald. 20 October 2014. See n84.

143n100 (230) – O’Rourke, Email to Ombudsman, ‘Magdalene Ex Gratia Scheme: Ongoing Problems’, 6 June 2019 See n42.

144n101 (230) – Letter from Brenda R Ryan, Restorative Justice Implementation Unit, Department of Justice and Equality, to [Caitríona] enclosing Preliminary Assessment of Mary O’Toole SC, both dated 16 September 2019.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/144n101-230.pdf and http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/144n101230_Cover-Letter.pdf

144n102 (230) – Department of Justice, letter to survivor, 16 April 2014; Department of Justice, letter to survivor, 14 May 2014.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/144n102-230_2.pdf and http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/144n102-230.pdf

145n104 (230) – Ombudsman, email to survivor, 20 June 2014; Ombudsman, letter to survivor, 20 June 2014.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/145n104-230.pdf and http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/145n104-Ombusman-Letter-to-survivor-20-June-2014.pdf

145n105 (230) – Jim Smith, email to Maureen O’Sullivan, 13 May 2014.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/145n105-230.pdf

147n114 (230)MKL and DC v Minister for Justice and Equality [2017] IEHC 398, Affidavit of James Martin, 1 February 2017, Exhibit JM 1.

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148n124 (231) – Maeve O’Rourke, ICCL, JFMR, NWCI, Amnesty International Ireland, and Sage Support and Advocacy, letter to Minister Charlie Flanagan, 11 January 2018.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/148n124-231.pdf

Jim O’Callaghan, letter to Charlie Flanagan, 12 February 2018.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/148n124-231-.pdf.

JFMR, letter to An Taoiseach, 16 February 2018.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/148n124-231-JFMR-Letter-to-An-Taoiseach.pdf

JFMR, Memo to Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan, ‘Re: Women Excluded from Magdalene Scheme’, 27 March 2018.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/148n124-231-JFMR-to-Charlie-Flanagan.pdf

151n144 (232) – Email from Wendy Lyon to Maeve O’Rourke, 15 January 2021.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/151n144-232.pdf

152n148 (232) – JFM Submission to Justice John Quirke, 21.

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153n151 (232) – Personal letter to James M. Smith. On file with authors to protect the survivor’s privacy.

154n153 (232) – Maeve O’Rourke, email to Anne Ferris, 2 February 2015.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/154n153-232.pdf, including list of proposed amendments: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/154n153-232_2.pdf

154n155 (232) – Charlie Flanagan, letter to Maeve O’Rourke, ICCL, JFMR, NWCI, Amnesty International Ireland, and Sage Support and Advocacy, 28 January 2018, URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/154n155-232.pdf

155n161 (233)Terms of an ex gratia scheme for women who were admitted to and worked in Magdalen Laundries, St Mary’s Training Centre Stanhope Street and House of Mercy Training School Summerhill, Wexford, December 2013, Para 36.

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157n166 (233) – Email from Claire McGettrick to JFMR, 23 December 2014.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/157n166.pdf

159n181 (234)Gillian McGuire, letter to Restorative Justice Implementation Unit, Department of Justice and Equality, 28 May 2015.

Correction to endnote: Joni Murphy, letter from the Restorative Justice Implementation Unit, Department of Justice and Equality, 19 February 2015.

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159n182 (234) – Jimmy Martin, memo, 31 May 2013. This record was generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

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159n183 (234) – Jimmy Martin, email to Conan McKenna, Department of Justice, ‘Observations of Department of Health’, 4 July 2013. This record was generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/159n183-234.pdf

159n184 (234) – Carol Baxter, Civil Law Reform, Note, ‘Meeting with D/Health on Magdalen Redress Scheme’, 8 July 2013. This record was generously shared by Conall Ó Fátharta.

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160n185 (234) – Fintan Hourihan, email to Katherine O’Donnell, 13 July 2014.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/160n185-234.pdf

160n189 (234) – Claire McGettrick, email correspondence with Margaret Gannon, August–October 2015. On file with authors to protect the survivor’s privacy.

160n190 (234) – Personal communication, Kathleen R.

160n191 (234) – Claire McGettrick, email correspondence with Margaret Gannon, August–October 2015. On file with authors to protect the survivor’s privacy.

160n192 (234) – McGettrick, email correspondence, August–October 2015. On file with authors to protect the survivor’s privacy.

161n194 (234) – John Hennessy, National Director, Primary Care, HSE, letter to Wendy Lyon, 16 February 2016.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/161n194-234.pdf

161n197 (235) – JFMR, email to Senators, 24 June 2019.

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JFMR Amendments to the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019.

URL: http://jfmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/161n197-235-.pdf.

JFMR, email to TDs, 9 July 2019.

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