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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...of our Taoiseach today, proud that he had the capacity to deliver such a meaningful apology and to provide an indication of the compensation deal on behalf of the Government and the people to the Magdalen women.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...and they were so happy they were walking 10 ft. tall. They put it to me that a great weight had been lifted off their shoulders. They are new women today. However, I am not only proud for the Magdalen women, I am proud for Ireland. We have had such a blackened and hidden past but what we did as a Government yesterday lifted the veil off that. This has been a good day for women,...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Maurice Cummins: To see first of all the ladies from the Magdalen laundries stand and applaud the Taoiseach after his speech and then all Members, including the Ceann Comhairle, stand and applaud these women was a sight to behold. Anyone present could not but have been touched by the emotion in that House yesterday evening. We are all keen to see a proper system of redress for the ladies of the Magdalen....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...of our Taoiseach today, proud that he had the capacity to deliver such a meaningful apology and to provide an indication of the compensation deal on behalf of the Government and the people to the Magdalen women.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...and they were so happy they were walking 10 ft. tall. They put it to me that a great weight had been lifted off their shoulders. They are new women today. However, I am not only proud for the Magdalen women, I am proud for Ireland. We have had such a blackened and hidden past but what we did as a Government yesterday lifted the veil off that. This has been a good day for women,...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Maurice Cummins: To see first of all the ladies from the Magdalen laundries stand and applaud the Taoiseach after his speech and then all Members, including the Ceann Comhairle, stand and applaud these women was a sight to behold. Anyone present could not but have been touched by the emotion in that House yesterday evening. We are all keen to see a proper system of redress for the ladies of the Magdalen....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Maurice Cummins: ...That would be a good title for such a debate because for too many years we put away our conscience and not just alone on this issue. As well as doing a great service to the women who were in the Magdalen laundries and what they suffered as demonstrated in the report, such a debate would help Ireland's conscience to realise the Ireland we thought we had was all a shadow. I am proud to be a...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Caít Keane: ..., Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, will visit Russia tomorrow for discussions on interstate adoptions. She has done Trojan work in this area. Regarding adoption rights, many of the girls from the Magdalen laundries and others are trying to trace their parents for many reasons, including medical reasons. We must ensure all help is given in this area.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ...councils as to what will happen. I want to be associated with the general message, response and welcome to what the Taoiseach and other members of the Government said yesterday evening on the Magdalen laundries. The Taoiseach's response went a long way towards addressing any discontent that there might have been over a perceived delay in a Government response. What was said could have...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

John Crown: ...us. Will the Leader get clarification from the Minister for Justice and Equality as to what investigation will take place with regard to potential conflict of interest issues that arise with the Magdalen laundries? State moneys were paid to hospitals which were then paid to the laundries for a service which did the work in terms that have been described as perhaps slave labour but...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Martin Conway: The Taoiseach's speech yesterday on the Magdalen laundries was encrypted with humanity, humility, compassion, understanding, generosity and the type of leadership that we expect from a man of his calibre. It was appropriate, long overdue but the right thing to do. This Taoiseach has proved that he does not take advice from his advisers and opinions from legal people but says and does the...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I congratulate the Taoiseach on what was a full apology to the women who were in the Magdalen institutions, an apology which was long overdue from successive Governments. It is a tribute to him that he appointed Mr. Martin McAleese to the Seanad to carry out that very difficult task of researching what had happened in the Magdalen laundries, culminating in the report presented and last...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Michael Mullins: ...bright light was necessarily shone on a very dark chapter of Ireland's history. I applaud the Taoiseach for taking a period of two weeks to consider the McAleese report and his meetings with the Magdalen survivors. This contributed to the sincerity and content of the apology he gave. I also welcome the apology from the Tánaiste, the leader of Fianna Fáil and the fine contributions of...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: ...contribution of the Taoiseach last evening in the Dáil. The apology was long overdue, but it came at a very important juncture. It is to be hoped it will give some solace to the victims of the Magdalen laundries. The attention now moves to the question of redress, which is essential. Such redress must not favour the legal profession substantially; rather, the money should be directed...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Caít Keane: ...the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, Deputy Michael Martin, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. Yesterday was a fine day. The Magdalen girls and ladies had suffered for so long. I listened to them on "Morning Ireland" and they appreciate all that was done. The Taoiseach's speech was very moving. He demonstrated...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Caít Keane: ..., Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, will visit Russia tomorrow for discussions on interstate adoptions. She has done Trojan work in this area. Regarding adoption rights, many of the girls from the Magdalen laundries and others are trying to trace their parents for many reasons, including medical reasons. We must ensure all help is given in this area.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ...councils as to what will happen. I want to be associated with the general message, response and welcome to what the Taoiseach and other members of the Government said yesterday evening on the Magdalen laundries. The Taoiseach's response went a long way towards addressing any discontent that there might have been over a perceived delay in a Government response. What was said could have...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

John Crown: ...us. Will the Leader get clarification from the Minister for Justice and Equality as to what investigation will take place with regard to potential conflict of interest issues that arise with the Magdalen laundries? State moneys were paid to hospitals which were then paid to the laundries for a service which did the work in terms that have been described as perhaps slave labour but...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Martin Conway: The Taoiseach's speech yesterday on the Magdalen laundries was encrypted with humanity, humility, compassion, understanding, generosity and the type of leadership that we expect from a man of his calibre. It was appropriate, long overdue but the right thing to do. This Taoiseach has proved that he does not take advice from his advisers and opinions from legal people but says and does the...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I congratulate the Taoiseach on what was a full apology to the women who were in the Magdalen institutions, an apology which was long overdue from successive Governments. It is a tribute to him that he appointed Mr. Martin McAleese to the Seanad to carry out that very difficult task of researching what had happened in the Magdalen laundries, culminating in the report presented and last...