That excludes older victims, such as young women abused in Magdalene Laundry-type institutions. Stormont officials are to be compelled to give evidence to an Assembly
committee on a controversy surrounding victims who fall outside the
terms of the on-going Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry.
Members of the committee that scrutinises the Office of First
Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) voted to trigger the
exceptional step after a failed year-long quest to obtain information.http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/stormont-officials-must-give-evidence-over-abuse-inquiry-victims-34237409.html