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- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...House and public. I also raise the issue of the statutory trust fund legislation and when it might be published. This legislation is of significant concern to victims, even before we mention the Magdalene laundries or the victims from Bethany Home. They are excluded from redress by this Government, which is appalling. The Minister for Justice and Equality has said he is now considering...
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...will be a difficult and controversial item of legislation, particularly for survivors of institutional abuse who still await State recognition and redress. The interdepartmental committee on the Magdalene laundries has not reported back to the Dáil and I am disappointed that the Minister refuses to acknowledge State responsibility for the survivors of Bethany Home. When will the...
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (4 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 455: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the inter-Departmental committee on the Magdalene Laundries has met; if the committee's terms of reference has been published; the date on which he expect an initial report to be made to Cabinet on the progress being made by this interdepartmental committee; and if he include an examination of the State's interactions with Bethany...
- Residential Institutions Redress (Amendment) Bill, 2011: Second Stage (14 Jul 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...regulations is a positive response. However the new Government's response to the Cloyne report is starkly at odds with its response to the abuse of women and children in the Bethany home and at Magdalene laundries. The continued exclusion of Bethany Home from the redress board is wrong and the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn's, recent rationale for maintaining this...
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (12 Jul 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will immediately publish the Magdalene Laundries inter-departmental committee terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19791/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (29 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date the independent chair of the Magdalene Laundries inter-Departmental Committee will be appointed; will the terms of reference of the Committees' investigation include access to relevant Government Departments records including his Deparment who approved on a Statutory basis the use of St. Mary Magdalene's Asylum, Lower Sean...
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...Justice and Equality if he has contacted the Attorney General since taking office to request a date by which the latter will conclude his review of the Irish Human Rights Commission assessment on Magdalene laundries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15697/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 434: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State was aware of the nature and function of the Magdalene laundries during the period from 1922 and as recently as 1996. [15698/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 435: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State was aware that there was no statutory basis for the Irish Courts use of the Magdalene laundries. [15699/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 436: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State was aware that it had enacted legislation to enable the use of one Magdalene laundry as a remand home. [15700/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 437: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the state was aware that children and adolescent girls were confined in the Magdalene laundries as late as 1970. [15701/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...for Justice and Equality if the State maintained a special provision whereby women giving birth to a second child outside marriage at a mother and baby home could be transferred directly to a Magdalene laundry. [15702/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 443: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department has taken to protect the constitutional rights of the women and children held in the Magdalene laundries. [15723/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 439: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State paid capitation grants to Magdalene laundries for the confinement of problem girls. [15703/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 440: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the State never inspected, licensed or certified the Magdalene laundries as approved institutions despite providing public moneys in the form of capitation grants to the institutions. [15704/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 441: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the State has yet to produce records for the women it referred to the Magdalene laundries. [15705/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the State's role in referring women and children to the Magdalene laundries. [15706/11]
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 444: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is his view that the State's refusal to apologise for its role in referring women to the Magdalene laundries has impeded restorative justice for survivors of the laundries. [15727/11]
- Order of Business (15 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the announcement by Government of the setting up of an interdepartmental committee to deal with the issue of the Magdalene laundries. I also understand the Cabinet is to consider the United Nations report in respect of the victims of those institutions. Will the Taoiseach indicate when the Cabinet review will be made public and brought before the House? I also seek an assurance...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the damning criticism of the State's failure to protect women who were detained and abused in the Magdalene laundries. This criticism is contained in the United Nations Committee Against Torture report on Ireland. As many as 30,000 women passed through these laundries in the period from 1922 to 1996. The women were held as prisoners and forced to work without pay. They...