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Seanad: Direct Provision: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...because of the Minister of State's partners in government, whether it is for reasons within the Department or whatever but it certainly is an issue that will not go away. I believe it will be our Magdalen laundry in the future and it is a scandal that we are not living up to the international human rights of the people in direct provision and we still have a great deal of work to do in...

Convention on the Constitution Final Reports: Statements (14 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...to the church to get away from its responsibilities and as an instrument of social control. That close connection between the church and the State was the context in which scandals such as the Magdalen laundries could take place. It is also the context in which people do not have the basic right to abortion, for example. We still have blasphemy in the Constitution. Despite the fine...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)

Maurice Cummins: ...health and educational support for those who survived physical, emotional and sexual abuse in residential education institutions. We also commissioned a report to examine what had happened in the Magdalen laundries and in 2013, we put in place a compensation scheme and medical support for the women whose lives were irreparably damaged. A redress scheme was also established for survivors...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Data (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of broadening the scheme for women living abroad who suffered in the Magdalen laundries, who are now entitled to free general practitioner services, prescribed drugs, surgical appliances, nursing and home help services, dental, ophthalmic and aural services, counselling, chiropody and physiotherapy, upon their return to Ireland, to include all...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

Katherine Zappone: ...Mr. Mike Allen of Focus Ireland and Mr. Fintan McNamara of the Residential Landlords Association for their expert commentary during the drafting of the Bill. I especially thank my assistant, Ms Magdalene Hayden, for her work on this. The Bill provides for three voluntary rent agreement schemes which offer better security of tenure and certainty of rent for tenants than is currently...

Coroners Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Clare Daly: ..., it firmly puts the need for us to address the deficiencies in our maternity services centre stage. Things are too rooted in the old Ireland, the Ireland that allowed us to have women shackled in Magdalen laundries, which did not have a problem with women's pubic bones being sawn open to facilitate more deliveries of children and which did not have a problem expelling thousands of women...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

David Norris: .... It is a marketing exercise and a PR stunt by people who are radical feminists and ex-nuns. Some of them should be ashamed of themselves, given that they come from the order that operated the Magdalen laundries and are still trying to control people. The amendment provides that the Minister's report would include the extent to which, in the opinion of the Minister, the section has...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...still persists in prolonging its love affair with incarceration [that is the word the Minister of State used]. Apparently in the 1950s we had 250,000 people in mental institutions. Ireland also has a history of mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries and an industrial schools system, yet again we revert to incarcerating and storing people while they wait for their asylum applications...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

David Norris: I will end on this. On the other hand, those to whom I refer are religious people from a particular background and many of them are from the order that supervised the Magdalen laundries. That ought to tell one something.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Caít Keane: ...to people, particularly minors. I ask the Minister of State to examine the matter. Part 6 of the Bill refers to the specific interests of the wards of court. I know that there are people residing in Magdalen homes who have been deemed to lack capacity who are unable to draw the funds that are due to them. They may lack capacity or are going through the process of being made a ward of...

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015)

...on a wide range of services including naturalisation and immigration services, asylum seeker accommodation, legal aid; the Irish Youth Justice Service; the Probation Service, the Legal Aid Board and the Magdalen compensation fund. The Vote also includes funding for a range of statutory services operating under the aegis of the Department, including the Office of the Data Protection...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...spending a considerable part of their lives within it. This legislation provides help to those young adults who have no family or social network to support them. We have come a long way from the Magdalen laundries and the workhouses. I commend the Minister and his officials on bringing forward this legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: ...Benefit - Invalidity Pension - OI Disablement (Workmen's com, medical care) - Carer's Allowance - Carer's Benefit - Domiciliary Care Allowance - Guardian's Payment (non-con) - Guardian's Payment (Contributory) - Magdalen Commission Scheme In order to be eligible for the bonus, recipients of Jobseeker's Allowance, Supplementary Welfare Allowance and Direct Provision Allowance must be in...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 1,846 women and girls confined in the Magdalene laundries during the 1920s, given that the McAleese report merely offers a breakdown of entries by decade, but not by institution (details supplied) [37292/15]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 879 women and girls who died in the Magdalene laundries between 1922 and 1996, given that the McAleese report merely offers a total figure, rather than a breakdown by laundry (details supplied). [37315/15]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: 526. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of women who died in the Magdalene laundries who were taken home to be buried by their families, as stated in chapter 16, section 34 of the McAleese report. [37317/15]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: 563. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the consultation she had with Mr. Justice Quirke concerning statements in his report (details supplied) regarding reserves for Magdalen women. [37674/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Report (3 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the entitlements enjoyed by Health (Amendment) Act cardholders, for the purposes of illustrating the type and extent of the primary and community services, which should be available to the Magdalen women. [37675/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (22 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: Eligibility for health services for the Magdalen women is provided by the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 which sets out the primary and community health services available in Ireland, free of charge, effective from 1 July 2015. The services are as follows: GP services; prescribed drugs, medicines, aids and appliances; dental, ophthalmic and aural services; home...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (13 Oct 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 167. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown by year and by institution of the number of women confined in each of the ten Magdalen laundries. [35429/15]