Dublin City Councillors have voted tonight to transfer ownership of the former Magdalen Laundry on Seán McDermott Street in Dublin to the OPW.
It paves the way for the site to be developed into a national centre for research and rememberance.
The site at Seán McDermott is the last Magdalene laundry remaining in State ownership and was the last such facility to close - only finally shutting its doors in 1996.
Ownership of the building was transferred from the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity to Dublin City Council in the late 1990s who planned to develop the site for housing, but these proposals did not come to fruition.
Earlier, this year the Government approved proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance at the site and tonight city councillors voted to transfer ownership to the OPW.
Under plans announced by the Government the new centre will compromise of a museum, a repository of records related to institutional trauma in the 20th century and a place for reflection and remembrance.
It will also have social housing and community facilities, as well as an educational and early learning facility.
