92 Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if in accordance with the Factories Act 1955, section 84, Ireland’s Magdalene laundries were considered factories and, as such, were subject to the conditions laid out in that legislation; if his position reflects the statement made by the then Minister for Industry and Commerce, William Norton, in Seanad Éireann on 5 May 1955 that “once you wash clothes in the institution, not for the institution, then that is a factory. In other words, you have a right to wash clothes for the institution, but if you start to wash other people’s clothes it is a factory, for the purpose of section 84”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16904/11]

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92 Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if in accordance with the Factories Act 1955, section 84, Ireland’s Magdalene laundries were considered factories and, as such, were subject to the conditions laid out in that legislation; if his position reflects the statement made by the then Minister for Industry and Commerce, William Norton, in Seanad Éireann on 5 May 1955 that “once you wash clothes in the institution, not for the institution, then that is a factory. In other words, you have a right to wash clothes for the institution, but if you start to wash other people’s clothes it is a factory, for the purpose of section 84”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16904/11]

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