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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (10 Dec 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 230 and 231 together. The Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme was established in 2013 on foot of the recommendations contained in the Magdalen Commission Report (Quirke Report). That Report was a response to an Interdepartmental Government Committee report (McAleese Report) that was set up to establish the facts of State involvement with the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (22 Feb 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: An Inter-Departmental Committee was set up in 2011 to establish the facts of the State's involvement with the Magdalen Laundries. It was chaired by then Senator Martin McAleese and it is commonly referred to as the McAleese report. The material in the Report relates to 10 different institutions which were run by 4 different Orders of nuns over a period of 70 years. Chapter 3 of the...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 18:In page 5, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Implementation of Magdalen Commission Report recommendations 5. The Minister shall report to Dáil Éireann within 6 months of the enactment of this Act and each subsequent 6 months on the implementation of the recommendations of the Magdalen Commission Report on the establishment of an...

Report on Magdalene Laundries (9 Nov 2010) See 4 other results from this debate

Tom Kitt: ...the recommendations of the Irish Human Rights Commission that the Government initiate a statutory inquiry into the human rights violations arising from the treatment of women and young girls in the Magdalene laundries. I welcome the fact the Attorney General will now examine the IHRC report in consultation with the relevant Departments. The IHRC concluded that for these women and girls...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Apology (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of discussions he has had with Dublin City Council senior management regarding the creation of an appropriate memorial at the Gloucester Street Magdalen laundry site on Seán McDermott Street, Dublin 1; and the assistance his Department has provided to Dublin City Council to progress the engagement with Magdalen laundry survivors...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...to the Bill and I welcome the Minister's commitments. The Bill seeks to amend the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 and the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009. The Magdalen restorative justice ex gratiascheme was established in 2013 to provide women who worked and resided in Magdalen institutions with access to financial and health supports, including lump...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: ...year, it is expected to be 14.3%. In 2016, the rate of long-term unemployment was 4.3%. It is currently 2.1%. There has been no real progress in this area. Page 176 refers to the number of Magdalen commission customers in payment. The Department needs to be a little more sensitive in regard to Magdalen survivors. They should perhaps be recorded as Magdalen survivors rather than...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Feb 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Joe Costello: We have set up an inquiry and an apology will certainly be forthcoming. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the report by former Senator McAleese on the Magdalen laundries. Former Senator McAleese and the committee are to be commended on their excellent work in bringing to light what happened to these women and for setting out the role of the State in the operation of the laundries. I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (21 Mar 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Shatter: The Government decision of 19 February relates to Magdalen Laundries which were examined by the Inter-Departmental Committee set up to establish the facts of State involvement. There were a wide variety of institutions which had laundries run by different religious congregations and no decision has been made to include them all within the scope of the Magdalen Scheme. As regards the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Happy International Women's Day to everyone here and beyond, but in particular to the women of the Magdalen laundries, the subject of my question to the Tánaiste. Seven women of the Magdalen laundries have died since the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, made his apology to the House, and there is no sign of the redress being passed to these women. They have been treated...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...been uncovered and laid out for everyone to read and to understand, to discuss and debate arising from the McAleese report. It might interest the Deputy that just over 10% of those who attended Magdalen laundries were sent there by families, while 19% of those residents in the Magdalen laundries went in there themselves. As I pointed out to the Deputy, the admission figures of 14,000...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (30 Jun 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with Magdalen Laundries (the McAleese report) provides an independent, comprehensive, factual account of the Magdalen institutions and informed the Government decision to establish an ex gratia scheme for women who entered and worked in such institutions. To date nearly €20m has been paid out in...

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (13 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: The Government has charged the inter-departmental committee with clarifying any State interaction with the Magdalen institutions and producing a narrative detailing such interaction. There are presently no plans to expand its brief beyond those institutions. Magdalen institutions are not a particularly Roman Catholic phenomenon. Many such institutions were founded by lay people in the 19th...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: The Government has charged the inter-departmental committee with clarifying any State interaction with the Magdalen institutions and producing a narrative detailing such interaction. There are presently no plans to expand its brief beyond those institutions. Magdalen institutions are not a particularly Roman Catholic phenomenon. Many such institutions were founded by lay people in the 19th...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (18 Apr 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to Magdalen Laundry survivors, if he will publicise at home and abroad to diaspora communities of survivors' entitlements to register with the Magdalen Fund/Commission in order to maximise the number of potential applicants' awareness of the scheme; the consequences there are for a survivor who does not register with the Magdalen...

Departmental Correspondence. (28 Jan 2010) See 3 other results from this debate

Batt O'Keeffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 and 14 together. A response has issued to the correspondence from the Justice for Magdalenes group and my officials have been in touch with the group to arrange a meeting with its representatives. The residential institutions redress scheme was introduced as an exceptional measure to provide compensation for people who were sent as children to, and who were...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Jun 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...and Youth Affairs. It is my understanding that Bethany Home will be included in the Commission of Investigation. My primary concern is the interests of the 500 or so women known to have been in Magdalen laundries and who have applied for benefits under the Magdalen scheme. The facts available regarding Magdalen laundries have already been set out in detail in the McAleese report which...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (28 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 769. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a clear timeline for the memorialisation and education process to ensure the atrocities of the Magdalen laundries are remembered; if a timeline has not been put in place, the steps she is taking to develop same; if the Justice for Magdalenes research 2020 report at the Dublin Honours Magdalenes event will be...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (13 May 2010) See 2 other results from this answer

Dermot Ahern: Research has indicated that a small proportion of entrants to Magdalen laundries came through the criminal justice system. Under the Probation of Offenders Act 1907, a person found to have committed a criminal offence may be made subject to a probation order under which the offender is released on entering a recognizance to be of good behaviour and subject to conditions. The duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (10 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to implement all recommendations contained within the Magdalene Commission report as prepared by Mr. Justice Quirke in May 2012 on the establishment of an ex gratia scheme and related matters for the benefit of those women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen laundries; the date on which legislation to provide enhanced...