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Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Mick Wallace: ...’s ongoing violation of the human rights of women through its draconian stance on abortion to see religious nuts still call the shots as regards women's bodily integrity. One would think after the Magdalen laundries, the death of children in mother and baby homes and the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, the State might start to take responsibility for its many crimes...

Establishment of Commission of Investigation into the Stardust Tragedy: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Pringle: ...played a role in concealing it. This alone warrants an independent commission of investigation. We have a problem with truth in this country. Whether it was the Catholic church, industrial schools, Magdalen laundries, our health system that allowed symphysiotomy, residential care homes, the role of the Garda in certain historic investigations, councillors or Deputies, Ministers and...

Seanad: Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (24 Jan 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Fintan Warfield: ...relationship endeavoured to protect the nuclear family model. Non-traditional families were not appreciated or considered and were met by stigmatisation. This was, as we know, was institutionalised in the Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes and was State policy even in the Adoption Act 1952, which legally branded children born outside wedlock as "illegitimate". "Illegitimate"...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Redeployment (13 Dec 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...in College Road has taken on all of the following additional functions - administering the deduction at source facility from welfare benefits for Local Property Tax, payments to the women under the Magdalen Commission Scheme and the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance (BSCFA). The administration of the BSCFA in Sligo, since 2015, involves the recruitment of some 50 staff,...

Topical Issue Debate: Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (29 Nov 2016)

Clare Daly: ...scheme to begin with, bad and all as it is. I remind the Minister of State that it took a former Minister to go to court to get the Guerin report withdrawn. We know the McAleese report into the Magdalen laundries was hugely criticised and controversial. The point that is being made here is that this document cannot stand. In and of itself, it abuses the women involved. It has to be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (29 Nov 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 136. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 85, 86 and 87 of 16 November 2016 (details supplied), if she will consider funding for a similar type support group in the USA, particularly in view of the fact the Coalition of Irish Immigration Centres did not receive the information circulated via the embassies in October 2014. [37663/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Magdalen Laundries (29 Nov 2016)

Clare Daly: 324. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the pension scheme entitlements available to former residents of the Magdalen laundries; and if such payments impact on any other social protection payments, such as the fuel allowance or the household package. [37058/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (23 Nov 2016) See 2 other results from this answer

Clare Daly: ...the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will order a full audit of the files in the possession of Tusla in view of recent revelations that the HSE had access to a report prepared for the Magdalene/McAleese inquiry in 2012, which warned that death certificates may have been falsified at Bessborough and Tuam Mother and Baby Home; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (17 Nov 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Carol Nolan: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending enhanced medical card provision similar to that of survivors from the Magdalene laundries to survivors of abuse in other institutions of the State, in particular those who are eligible to apply to the Caranua organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35542/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (16 Nov 2016) See 3 other results from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: 85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the information note on the restorative justice scheme for survivors of the Magdalen laundries, circulated in October 2014 to local Irish communities by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through its embassies, did not find its way to the Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers in the United States (details supplied). [35391/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Eligibility (15 Nov 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...by the Residential Institutions Redress Board Scheme operated by the Department of Education and Skills. It is assumed that the Deputy is enquiring as to whether An Grianán is also covered by the Magdalen Laundries Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme under the remit of my Department. The Magdalen Scheme is limited to 12 named institutions - the 10 Magdalen laundries that were...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: .... Between 1926 and 1951, 1% of our population, or 31,000 people, were held in a variety of different institutions. They were, in effect, incarcerated in industrial schools, mental hospitals and Magdalen laundries. Rather than creating the Gaelic Eden de Valera described of comely maidens at the firesides and athletic youths dancing at the crossroads, we had, in truth, created what Sean...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: .... It is ludicrous that a country with the eighth amendment, for example, would now pose itself as being somehow progressive on women's rights, despite our history of the Catholic Church controlling people's lives, the Magdalen laundries, symphysiotomy etc. On the second point, the Government is doing nothing. This legislation is not accompanied by any serious measures that would give...

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: ...many victims of sexual abuse there have been over the years in the primary school system. It is no more than the secondary school system, I assume. We had the redress scheme, the case of all the Magdalenes - not that there was sexual abuse in the vast majority of cases - and the mother and baby home report which will come before the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. We will have...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...torture, the incarceration and the enslavement of women in this country for decades. These were shameful decades of mistreatment of women as second-class citizens. It brought us the shame of the Magdalen laundries and symphysiotomy, as well as driving 250,000 women since 1970 out of the country under the shadow of shame, stigmatisation, and criminality. The persistence of that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 Oct 2016)

Simon Harris: As part of a support package, including a range of financial payments, that was approved by Government for former residents of Magdalen Laundries, eligibility for health services for the Magdalen women is provided by the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015. The Act sets out the primary and community health services made available, free of charge, to qualifying women....

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (4 Oct 2016)

Jackie Cahill: ...balance. The amount paid by each person is determined by a financial means assessment. The 2009 Act has been amended in the past to exclude from financial means assessment ex gratiapayments from the Magdalen laundry redress scheme and this Bill provides that ex gratiapayments from other redress schemes will also be excluded from any assessment, which Fianna Fáil supports. However, I...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...is not a divisive issue in this House - are all committed to the implementation of the report. The Taoiseach stood as a proud Irishman in the Dáil and spoke in a tearful way of the issue of the Magdalen women. He was commended for doing so. I commended him - we all did - because it was an emotional day for everybody in the Oireachtas. However, I am fully convinced there will be a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme or to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries are also disregarded. These compensation awards and payments were disregarded over the years as a result of Government decisions and the enactment of corresponding legislation....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Finian McGrath: ...caused by thalidomide. Any payment made by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. 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 in social welfare means assessments. All other compensation or court awards which are not provided for...