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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerry Adams: ...she was a woman. While it might seem half-humorous, none the less it shows how her rights were contravened. That is the type of attitude that allowed what occurred in the mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries and malpractices like symphysiotomy to continue. Perhaps there is an opportunity for a national conversation on these big matters and on the need for equality for all...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014) See 5 other results from this debate

Maureen O'Sullivan: The Irish Human Rights Commission and the Committee Against Torture of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights have raised the continuing failure to investigate abuse in Magdalen laundries. There are many connections between mother and baby homes, industrial schools and Magdalen laundries. Justice for Magdalenes is an organisation that works with survivors of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Joan Collins: 71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Magdalen laundries and Bethany homes including Ovoca House, Westbank Orphanage and the Church of Ireland Magdalen home, Leeson Street will be included in the terms of reference of the statutory inquiry into mother and babies homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27897/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...future; if she will ensure that the current health and welfare concerns in direct provision do not escalate to the level experienced in previous institutions such as the mother and baby homes or Magdalen laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27895/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Murphy: 386. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when payment will be made from the Magdalen laundries compensation fund in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27948/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (1 Jul 2014) See 3 other results from this answer

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for Justice and Equality if the forthcoming redress for women who were in certain institutions Bill will fully comply with Mr. Justice Quirke's recommendation that each woman who spent time in a Magdalen laundry should receive health services directly equivalent to those provided under the HAA card for persons infected with hepatitis C. [28449/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (1 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 434. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will establish in her Department a permanent unit dedicated to administer the supports to Magdalen laundries' survivors specified in the Quirke report; and the way she plans to ensure the Department provides easily accessible support and advice to applicants, as recommended by Mr. Justice Quirke. [28451/14]

Health (General Practitioner Services) Bill 2014: Motion to Instruct Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Denis Naughten: .... During the Order of Business this morning, the Minister for Education and Skills said on behalf of the Government that new legislation would be introduced before the summer recess. It is to be rushed through so women who were in Magdalen laundries will actually get a medical card. If the Government had accepted my amendment today, it could have facilitated this process by statutory...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to ask the Minister about legislation which, I understand, has come before the Cabinet in respect of the granting of medical cards to women who survived the Magdalen laundries. When will that legislation be published? When does the Minister envisage its being put on the Statute Book? I understand the legislation will not take account of women and survivors who live outside the...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...to look for that debate but I cannot accept the amendment to ask the Minister of State to come in today. Senator Paul Coghlan welcomed the package agreed at Cabinet on Tuesday for survivors of Magdalen institutions. I agree with him that it is very welcome to see that overdue series of measures being approved at Cabinet. I know many people in this House have been looking for that over...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (25 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Clare Daly: ...will confirm that material microfilmed under the Access to Institution and Related Records project includes mother and child homes; and that any material from the project data base was given to the Magdalen inquiry. [26882/14]

Order of Business (24 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerry Adams: ...to commence before the end of this year. Is this acceptable to the Taoiseach? Is that not an unduly long lead-in time? The Taoiseach will be aware that Archbishop Martin has said the inquiry should include the Magdalen laundries. Can he give that commitment? Will the county homes, as requested by the campaign of survivors group, also be included? What is the timetable and format for...

Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jun 2014)

Magdalen Laundries

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (24 Jun 2014) See 3 other results from this debate

Frances Fitzgerald: The Taoiseach made the apologies and Mr. Justice Quirke carried out his investigation and submitted recommendations in relation to the Magdalen laundries. Women who were in the Magdalen laundries have applied for benefits under that scheme. This morning, the Government, on my proposal, agreed to the publication of the scheme of a new Bill to provide for services and supports for women who...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Ruth Coppinger: 77. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on extending the terms of reference for the mother and baby homes inquiry to include the Magdalen laundries. [26760/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Niall Collins: 86. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the issues of concern surrounding the Magdalen institutions and Bethany Home will be included in the commission of investigation to establish the facts surrounding the mother and baby homes here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26696/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jun 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: ...ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts that have been made by him or his Department to lobby the Vatican to put pressure on the four religious orders that ran the Magdalen laundries here to contribute to a redress fund for survivors of abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26820/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jun 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 449. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the ongoing delay in the implementation of the Magdalen laundries plan; the reason she feels that the private services mentioned in Appendix G would not be appropriate for the Magdalen laundries women; the reason there is only mention of public services within the State within the plan; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (24 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...UN High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding effective investigation and documentation of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; if he is willing to include the Magdalen laundries and county homes together with all mother and baby homes as part of the investigation's terms of reference; and if he will be open to the investigation being carried out by an...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: One-Parent Family Payments (19 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Kathleen Lynch: ...on behalf of the Minister for Social Protection. The matter is not dealt with in my reply but, given that the Senator raised it, I must point out that 80% of the women who were incarcerated in Magdalen laundries did not have babies. They are always very anxious to make that point. While some of them did give birth, the majority did not do so. It is important to clarify the position in...