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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (5 May 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy will be aware, the Government has committed to the establishment of a National Centre for Research and Remembrance on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry in Sean McDermott Street which will stand as a National Memorial to honour all those who were resident in Mother and Baby Homes, Industrial School, Reformatories, Magdalen Laundries and related institutions. The approved...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (3 Nov 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 512 to 519, inclusive, together. These questions seek a breakdown by institution of the number of women and girls in Magdalene Laundries in each the eight decades from the 1920's to the 1990's. The available statistics are those in the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries -...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (23 Feb 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Magdalen Laundries Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme was set up following the publication of the report in February, 2013 of an Inter-Departmental Committee set up 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...

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The survivors of the Magdalene laundries were excluded from institutional redress schemes and have not received an apology from the State or a recognition of the abuse visited on them. When will the House have sight of the interdepartmental report on the Magdalene laundries? Will the Taoiseach assure Deputies that time will be provided for the Dáil to debate the report early in the new...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...loss of life and the cruelty associated with the abundance of food available at the time while people starved. However, we know there have been much darker moments relating to industrial schools, Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes, symphysiotomy, thalidomide and clerical abuse. There has been an appalling litany of tragedies and the one common denominator is the cruel and inhuman...

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (24 Jun 2014)

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...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 Jan 2015)

Niall Collins: Fianna Fáil supports this Bill, which will provide certain health services to women who were resident in the Magdalen laundries and in similar laundries operated at St. Mary's training centre, Stanhope Street, Dublin 7, and the House of Mercy training school, Summerhill, Wexford. We welcome the fact that the Bill also provides that such women will not be required to pay the statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (22 Nov 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the addendum to the terms of Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme presumes that no child under 12 years of age worked in a Magdalen laundry in view of the fact that the McAleese report confirms that some children under 12 years of age did; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48693/18]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (29 Jun 2011) See 1 other result from this answer

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 — 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...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Colm Keaveney: I want to support the Bill which, in essence, will provide free health services for women who were residents of the Magdalen laundries and similar laundries that were operated such as St. Mary's Training Centre, Stanhope Street, Dublin. The Bill also provides that such women will not be required to pay the statutory charge for public acute hospital inpatient services and that the ex...

Priority Questions: Magdalen Laundries Report (17 Apr 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Minister is aware that it is five months since the Ombudsman published his report on the Magdalen restorative scheme introduced by the previous Government to deal with the great disservice done to Irish women who served in Magdalen laundries. Several recommendations contained in the Ombudsman's report have not yet been complied with by the Minister and his Department. What is being done...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Magdalen Laundries (6 Feb 2013) See 3 other results from this debate

Maureen O'Sullivan: It is interesting to note the first parliamentary question about the Magdalen laundries was asked in 1938. It has taken quite a while to get from 1938 to 2013, when we now know the facts and everything that has been established. The committee hopes the report "will be a real step in bringing healing and peace of mind to all concerned, most especially the women whose lived experience of the...

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

Frances Fitzgerald: There is no record of an expression of interest or application form being received from this individual for the Magdalen Scheme. If this lady was admitted to and worked in one of the 12 specified institutions under the Magdalen Scheme she should contact my officials in the Restorative Justice Implementation Unit of my Department at Tel: 01 4768628 and they will assist her. Alternatively,...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013) See 6 other results from this debate

Michael Colreavy: This month I witnessed the best and the worst aspects of the operations of Dáil Éireann. The worst came two weeks ago in the form of the Taoiseach's initial response to the Magdalen report in the aftermath of its publication. The Taoiseach gave a lecture on statistics instead of dealing with the crimes perpetrated against the girls and women who were put in Magdalen laundries. In...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013) See 4 other results from this answer

Alan Shatter: ...question of upkeep and access to graves, whether in private or public graveyards, do not fall within the remit of my Department. The general position regarding the graves of those who were in Magdalen institutions is addressed in Chapter 16 of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: ...position and then let the House know. On the question of legacy, the Taoiseach will want part of his legacy to be the speech where he criticised the church and mentioned, among other things, the Magdalen laundries. The Magdalen laundries of this day and age are the direct provision centres. What has happened there, on the Taoiseach's watch, has been nothing short of a scandal.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (25 Sep 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Shatter: ...that he only contemplated one situation where a payment should be made in the case of a deceased woman "where a written expression of interest has been provided to the State by or on behalf of a Magdalen woman who was alive on or after the 19th February 2013 then that woman will be eligible for consideration to be included within the Scheme." but even then he stated "additional income ex...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (19 Nov 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Lou McDonald: 91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has knowledge of the accounts audit for the €250k given to the Irish Women Survivor’s Support Network on the night of the Magdalene apology; the percentage of this funding that is dedicated to Magdalene survivors; if this funding has been renewed in the most recent budget; and if the Government are continuing to fund, and...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is on the A list and will be published this session. The Government made it clear in respect of the Magdalen decision that it wished to be as generous as possible to those who live within and outside the State. The Magdalen report is being implemented. Much work is being undertaken, payments are being made, etc. This Bill from the Department of Justice and Equality dealing with these...