213 Deputy Michael Kennedy asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a letter from Justice For Magdalenes, first submitted on 8 February and again on 29 March 2010; if she will clarify her Department’s role in transferring women from State-funded mother and baby homes into Magdalene laundries as outlined in the Department of Local Government and Public Health Annual Report, 1932, and paying capitation grants in the amount of £9.90 per week for problem girls confined at an institution (details supplied) in Dublin 9 as late as 1972; if similar capitation grants were paid to other similar convent institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16796/10]

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213 Deputy Michael Kennedy asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a letter from Justice For Magdalenes, first submitted on 8 February and again on 29 March 2010; if she will clarify her Department’s role in transferring women from State-funded mother and baby homes into Magdalene laundries as outlined in the Department of Local Government and Public Health Annual Report, 1932, and paying capitation grants in the amount of £9.90 per week for problem girls confined at an institution (details supplied) in Dublin 9 as late as 1972; if similar capitation grants were paid to other similar convent institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16796/10]

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1. 27 April 2010

   Magdalene Laundries.

   213 Deputy Michael Kennedy asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a letter from Justice For Magdalenes, first submitted on 8 February and again on 29 March 2010; if she will clarify her Department’s role in transferring women from State-funded mother and baby homes into Magdalene laundries as outlined in the Department of Local Government and Public Health Annual Report, 1932, and paying capitation grants in the amount of £9.90 per week for problem girls confined at an institution (details supplied) in Dublin 9 as late as 1972; if similar capitation grants were paid to other similar convent institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16796/10]

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