The site of a former Magdelene laundry in the inner city is to be turned into a "site of conscience" within the next five years.
A sale of the site to a Japanese hotel chain was blocked by Dublin City councillors in September last year.
And now, the site will "recognise the social, cultural and personal history" that the Magdalene laundry had for many residents of Dublin.
The plans are part of the Dublin City Agreement between Fianna Fail, Labour, Green Party and Social Democrats.
It reads: "We will develop a multipurpose Site of Conscience at the location of the former Magdalene laundry on Sean McDermott Street that will seek to honour and commemorate the victims and survivors of Ireland's Institutional past."
Social Democrats councillor Gary Gannon has said that he is "immensely proud" of the agreement and the plans for the Magdalene site.
He said: "During my last term as a city councillor, Dublin City Council stopped the sale of the last surviving Magdalene laundry in State ownership on Sean McDermott Street.
“I am immensely proud to say that as part of the Dublin Agreement, which will be council policy for the next five years, we have secured an agreement on the development of a multipurpose site of conscience at the location.
“Work has already begun in listening to the views of survivors, their families and women’s groups to develop plans for the site that recognise the social, cultural and personal history that it symbolises."
He continued: “This opportunity allows us to repurpose this building into a physical space where future generations can touch the walls and know that what occurred in these institutions were not exaggerated.
“The appalling case of Majella Moynihan this week has again brought to the fore Ireland’s shameful past, and how we are still failing to deal with it in the present.
"The campaign to preserve Sean McDermott as a site of conscience is being led by the survivors of the cruelest parts of our history and supported by a generation of people who are dedicated to never repeating, nor forgetting the injustices of our own past.”
