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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Treatment of Former Garda (18 Jun 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...of what a cruel and intolerant place it was for women who had children outside of marriage. This problem was not unique to Ireland but it was especially acute here, as we have seen from the Magdalen laundries and other tragic stories. We need to recognise that it is not enough for Member of this House to display our empathy and sympathy for Majella Moynihan. We are policymakers and the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

John O'Mahony: ...was informed that their case would be reassessed as a result of the award from the board. That is absolutely crazy. Those who have received money from the redress board may have worked in the Magdalen laundries, or may have been abused or exploited in other ways, and are dependent on the social welfare payments to which they are entitled. I shudder to think that people's entitlements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Frances Black: ...to live in direct provision. I am shaking with anger. I am saddened to hear that in this day and age, people are going through the experiences that have been described. When we talk about the Magdalen laundries, we say it was terrible and ask how these things happened. It is going on here today. That is the reality. When I spoke last week to a man from the US, he thanked God that the...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...patient safety and, with relevance to this debate, "possible interference with birth and death certification" requiring further investigation. These are the briefing papers that were brought to Government in 2012 by means of Martin McAleese's report on the Magdalen laundries. That report clarified that the committee could not investigate but wanted to ensure that the matter would be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (8 May 2019)

...of the whereabouts of their relatives’ graves because underpinning legislation makes it an offence for anyone, including a member of the commission, to disclose or publish any evidence. Regarding the Magdalen laundries, the Department of the Taoiseach has repeatedly refused to release any of the contents of the McAleese committee archive, claiming that it is holding the archive for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...in this quest to right the wrongs of the past. It is never ever too late to do so. The Ceann Comhairle said in the Dáil that the neglect of members of the Defence Forces was up there with the Magdalen laundries and other such instances of abuse. In this instance we are talking about acts of valour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019) See 17 other results from this debate

Michael Harty: ...with those services. On behalf of the committee, I welcome, from the Neurological Society of Ireland, Ms Edina O'Driscoll, project manager of the neurorehabilitation demonstrator project and Ms Magdalen Rogers, executive director of the society. I also welcome, from the Disability Federation of Ireland, Ms Joanna McCarthy, senior executive, policy and research and Ms Ava Battles, chief...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: UN Conventions Ratification (9 Apr 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...mechanisms with unfettered access to all places where persons are deprived of their liberty. In light of the history in Ireland of unlawful detention and institutional abuse, including in the Magdalen laundries, we need to get the inspections process right. Independent and regular inspections of institutions and care settings shine a light on otherwise hidden or closed spaces. The...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: With regard to the opening statement and the Vote, money has been saved on the Magdalen laundry ex gratiascheme. We had that scheme and its extension as a result of the Ombudsman's report.

Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...as a result of this Government's policies but, most importantly, we must eradicate this problem immediately. Otherwise, we will be guilty of the same sort of crimes that we now condemn such as the Magdalen laundries and the industrial schools and let us not forget the people in direct provision or children coming out of residential care who are homeless. The State is failing people in...

Retention of Records Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Clare Daly: ..., redress, and access to justice, the State has engaged in denial, delay, gagging survivors and limiting the scope of investigations. It has left people behind in respect of Bethany Home and the Magdalen laundries and has given indemnity to many perpetrators, including St. Patrick's Guild and the like. It has let religious orders off the hook for the financial bill and traumatised many...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Protection (28 Mar 2019)

Clare Daly: ...ensuring that individuals whose records were falsified have access to information and redress". The special rapporteur also called for a full investigation into the human rights abuses in the Magdalene laundries and was very concerned that we do not have enough proper information with regard to abuse now and the lack of records. Are there plans in those areas to address some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

...of our relatively new Republic and State has not always been a priority, and the contrary has been the case. This is what gave rise to our industrial schools and the various scandals of the Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes and institutional abuse at various levels. I am delighted that child protection and welfare is within the political arena, which is where it belongs. We are...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (26 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ....  Any payment made by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is also disregarded for social welfare means test purposes.  In addition, ex gratia payments made to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries, or through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme, are also disregarded. All compensation or court awards which are not specifically provided for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (13 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action he will take to address the failure by the restorative justice unit to provide a provisional offer for redress to 14 survivors of the High Park Magdalen laundry which was in operation into the 1980s. [12554/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications in respect of an award under the terms of the addendum to the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme; the number of persons granted an award; the number of persons awaiting a decision in respect of their application; the reason therefor; the number of persons considered ineligible for an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (26 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 436 of 6 November 2018 and 127 of 24 January 2019, the status of an application by a person (details supplied) to the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9519/19]

Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Mick Wallace: ...responsibility and someone being held accountable. Until we do that, the State continues to drag people through more traumas and cruelty every day. We saw the awful way in which a small group of Magdalen survivors were wrongfully excluded from the redress scheme and the Government was heavily criticised by the Ombudsman for that exclusion. It was unjustifiable and, in a similar way, the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Feb 2019) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 205. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position relating to occupants of the various mother and baby homes ,including the Magdalen laundries, Bethany Home and others; if compensation has been paid, is pending or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7397/19]