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THE GOVERNMENT IS to give €250,000 to fund the UK Step by Step Centre for Irish Magadalene Laundries survivors, Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter said today.
Speaking in the Dáil following the official State apology from the Taoiseach Enda Kenny to the Magdalene survivors, Shatter said that the largest single group of women who have come forward are based in the UK and represented by the Irish Women’s Survivors Network.
He said that it is now proposed that the Step by Step Centre for Irish survivors be established as a holistic and person-centred service that would offer specialist advice and support to those affected, and focus on ensuring their future health and well being.
Minister Shatter also noted:
the greatest respect we can pay to their stories of the laundries is that those stories, and the lessons from them, are never forgotten and are truly believed.
The Government has made a decision in principle to pay out of the fund an initial sum of €250,000 to the UK Step by Step Centre for Irish Survivors of Industrial Schools and the Laundries.
Fund
A fund for Magdalene survivors is to be established, it was announced tonight. Minister Shatter said:
The Government has decided to include those women who worked in the Stanhope Street Laundry without pay within the scope of the fund.
President of the Law Reform commission Mr Justice Quirke has been appointed to examine how the Government might best provide supports for the survivors.
A scheme will be created under the fund (to operate on a non-adversarial basis) to make payments to individuals.
From tomorrow, people can contact the Justice Department to register their interest in being considered to receive benefits or supports from the fund when it enters into operation.
The details are:
Magdalene Laundry Fund
c/o Department of Justice and Equality
Montague Court
Montague Street
Dublin 2
Tel. 01-476 8649; e-mail info@idcmagdalen.ie; web sites: www.idcmagdalen.ie; www.justice.ie
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The cases mix up the cost of designing the logo and mark with the cost of implementing it. The BP rebrand was so expensive because of how much signage had to be changed all over the world.
If it is done on a gradual basis (as Irish Rail are doing for example) it costs very little. You just renew signage with the new mark as the old signage wears out.
Quite often these rebrands are supposed to be internally symbolic. They mark a major change in an organisation’s development. The costs of these changes of direction are usually confounded with the rebranding.
Imagine being payed 1.4million by the BBC and having the audacity to produce that. By no means a bad logo but sure someone at the BBC could have rustled that up themselves
According to this, I’m actually worth about €78 million.
Catch you drips later.
10 and 11 were ripped off
“Hey we have millions here to spend on a new logo”
“Hang on a second and let me open Microsoft Word”
I think the last couple are misleading. They are not the cost of the logo but of rebranding. That includes changing every petrol station and van/tanker logos in BPs case. British airways changed all their tail fins some years ago and I think it was 100 million. Then they changed them back as so many People complained.
Accenture? Ass-enter more like….
Ha! Classic!
Every time i see the olympics logo it just looks like lisa Simpson going down on bart, how was this not noticed before it was released?
BBC. 1.4 million. Seriously?
Accenture IT consultants in my opinion are the biggest chancers and spoofers in the business.
Red sells…
The Google, Coca Cola, Twitter logos have been redesigned multiple times. The designers who did that work were paid.
Most of the large amounts were for more than just a logo design and many of the low amounts are highly questionable. If windows logos were designed internally the staff’s wages are still an expense that has to be accounted for.
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