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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

...needs to look at the issue of reparations. We have to acknowledge this injustice as we have acknowledged the injustice committed upon the women who were institutionalised in such places as the Magdalen laundries. A total of 60 years of State-sponsored denial of Traveller identity and culture has not only impacted on their educational attainment but has created an internalised oppression,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (5 Nov 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: ...für behinderte Menschen; - income which has arisen to an individual as a result of the investment of a relevant payment within the meaning of such under section 205A, which is generally payments relating to the Magdalen Laundries. The investment undertaking must deduct the exit tax in the normal manner, but the individual or trust may be entitled to a repayment of the exit tax. The...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: .... Section 6 extends an exemption from tax for payments made to compensate individuals for expenses incurred in the donation of a kidney to also include those who donate a lobe of a liver. Section 7 makes a technical amendment to the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme. Sections 8 to 10 deal with SARP, KEEP and FED. Section 11 seeks to maintain the status quofor qualifying UK...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (23 Oct 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...He cared fundamentally about people. That was his innate skill. Many people will not be aware of the following, so I will share it with the House. Feargal employed many people who came from the Magdalen laundries in south County Dublin. He took a particular interest in the people who grew up in Madonna House in Stillorgan. I think of one particular woman, whom I will call Lily. He...

Child Maintenance: Motion (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...is the so-called economic upturn? The only conclusion I can come to is that the State has not come to terms with its shame in respect of lone parents, shame that lingers from the time of the Magdalen laundries, from when divorce was illegal and from when children outside marriage were shunned. We should now address our sense of shame about nearly 250,000 people in this country once and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (3 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...; €235,269  17  €383,058  29  €618,328  Mortgage Interest Supplement  12  €193,296  11  €226,182  23  €419,478  Disablement Benefit  15  €474,669  5  €106,173  20  €580,842  Rent Allowance  7  €117,742 ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Josepha Madigan: ...of Ireland's strategic plan for 2019 to 2022 was launched in early March, and an exhibition by the Down-based artist Alison Lowry, which was an artistic response to the Tuam mother and baby home, the Magdalen laundries, and domestic violence, was also launched in March. As part of the Traveller's Journey exhibition, the Department of Education and Skills has collaborated with our...

Status of History in the Framework for Junior Cycle: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...and the Kennedy family plot. It leaves a visual and emotional impact on young people. We also have an obligation to teach our young people about the dark side of our history, including the mistreatment of women, including those confined to Magdalen laundries, our State’s discrimination against those who did not fit in because they were Travellers, gay, non-religious or unionist,...

Special Needs Education Places: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: ...again - and I am sick of hearing myself saying this, so I am sure that everybody else is sick of it too - that we have consistently failed children in the State. We all know the stories of the industrial homes and the Magdalen laundries and yet here we are failing children again. I believe that 20 or 30 years down the road everybody will wonder, "How did we let this happen?" We are...

Seanad: Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...and shameful history of collusion between church and State authorities that has manifested in the oppression of women and children from disadvantaged backgrounds, notably in industrial schools, Magdalen institutions and so forth. As we have seen in recent votes, not only in the blasphemy referendum but in the referenda on marriage equality and repeal of the eight amendment last year, we...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (6 Sep 2019)

Heather Humphreys: ..., Dundalk Co. Louth 50-100 XEROX (EUROPE) LIMITED Xerox Technology Park, Dublin Road Dundalk Co Louth 250-300 SMT FUND SERVICES (IRELAND) LIMITED Finnabair Business & Technology Park, Dundalk Co. Louth 50-100 MTI MERCHANDISING TECHNOLOGIES IRELAND LIMITED 9-33 Magdalene street, Ballsgrove Drogheda 50-100 GRAEBEL IRELAND Ground Floor Building 3 Dundalk 50-100...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Data (6 Sep 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 1027. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on the provision of services specified under Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 in each year since its initiation; and the number of women that have benefited from the section of the Act in each year in tabular form. [35769/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...) 13 €337,349 Domiciliary Care 10 €154,722 Carer's Benefit 8 €147,461 Third Level Option 5 €108,821 Second Level Option 5 €82,463 Rural Social Scheme 3 €63,737 Part-time Job Incentive 3 €57,998 Diet Supplement 2 €21,148 Death Benefit 1 €112,229 Adoptive Parent Benefit 1 €28,299 Jobs Initiative Scheme 1...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (10 Jul 2019) See 5 other results from this debate

Charles Flanagan: ...those who contracted hepatitis C as a result of contaminated blood transfusions. Some of the benefits were not directly applicable and that scheme would require some adaptation. The scheme proposed for the Magdalen women has such adaptation. People suffering from hepatitis C required some products outside the normal range of drugs available but that does not apply in respect of the...

State Ex Gratia Scheme: Statements (10 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...over-zealous civil servant or functionary; it is embedded in the heart of the State and its workings. If one looks at our record on hepatitis C and Brigid McCole, symphysiosotomy, Cervicalcheck, the Magdalen laundries, church-run schools and institutions, the Shane Farrell case and the long list of other issues, the speeches by chastened Ministers and leaders are similar but, frankly,...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Residential Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019) See 2 other results from this debate

Lynn Ruane: ...is an abbreviated and simplified version of the amendment we tabled on Committee Stage. It would require the Minister for Justice and Equality to review the health and social services available to the Magdalen women under this Act, compare them to the services available to those entitled to a medical card under the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 and ensure the participation of the Magdalen...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: The Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019 proposes to apply the Magdalen redress scheme to women who worked in the institutions covered by the scheme but who resided in certain adjoining institutions. When is it likely to be brought before the House?

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (27 Jun 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Lynn Ruane: ...of holders of a Health (Amendment) Act 1996 card, ensuring relevant participants’ involvement in the review, (b) assess any difference in entitlement to services in the context of the first recommendation of the 2013 Magdalen Commission Report, and (c) not later than 3 months after its commencement, make a report to each House of the Oireachtas of the findings made on the review...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ..., there were some dark moments that we created and sustained after independence. I specifically refer to the darkness of institutionalisation, mother and baby homes, the industrial schools and Magdalen laundries. I will not get into the commission on mother and baby homes, except to say those who are formally recognised to have been in the homes were invited, with their representatives,...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (25 Jun 2019) See 5 other results from this debate

Charles Flanagan: ...in Certain Institutions Act 2015. As Senators will be aware, the 2015 Act was enacted to provide certain health services to be made available without charge to successful applicants under the Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme. It also provides that ex gratia payments made to the women arising from the Magdalen redress scheme will not be included in a financial assessment of...