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Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...negotiations and whatever the conclusion, the Houses will be informed of the outcome. Regarding the points about the payments rate for the scheme, they are modelled on the approach taken under the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratiascheme. I secured, in the process of bringing this legislation forward, I secured Government agreement to improve the overall approach to payments. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (30 May 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...appropriately, it is important to look at the reasons, as the Minister of State outlined, for these young people being in nursing homes. Professor Susan Coote of the University of Limerick and Ms Magdalen Rogers of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, in their recent evidence before the Joint Committee on Health, alluded to the expansion of neurorehabilitation teams into every CHO as a...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Fintan Warfield: ...by Senator Black, risks violating the right to accessing justice. The UN Committee Against Torture found that waivers imposed in the context of the residential institutions redress board, an ex gratia Magdalen laundries redress scheme, were unenforceable. It also stated that judicial remedies must always be available to victims, irrespective of what other remedies are available. Waivers...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...towards women has characterised the treatment of women in this country for virtually the entire history of the State. These attitudes led to the obscenities of the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries, the Bethany homes and to tens and tens of thousands of women having to flee abroad under a shadow of stigma and shame for abortions in another country. All this history of...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...and children. That situation persisted for far too long. We are all thinking of the various carceral institutions in which women and children were confined for many decades, for example, the Magdalen institutions, the mother and baby homes and the industrial schools, in which much violence was perpetrated, but this survey highlights that the issue persists even after those institutions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023) See 57 other results from this debate

Bernard Durkan: ...is to discuss consideration of access to community neurological rehabilitation teams. To assist the committee with this I am pleased to welcome from the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, NAI, Ms Magdalen Rogers, executive director, Dr. Susan Coote, associate professor, University of Limerick, and Dr. Niall Pender, principal clinical neuropsychologist in Beaumont Hospital and associate...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...with the creation of a records and memorial centre in Sean McDermott Street to act as a site of conscience and a site where what happened in mother and baby and county home institutions and, indeed, in Magdalen laundries and other institutions can be understood. We will also have a dedicated archive. This is run by the National Archives of Ireland and the National Museum of Ireland,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (16 May 2023)

Norma Foley: ..., the development of which has been approved by Government, will stand as a national memorial to all those who were resident in relevant institutions, including industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalen Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and related institutions.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (10 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...them. Their primary role will be to represent the collective interests of those who suffered institutional trauma. The remit of the Special Advocate will cover Industrial and Reformatory Schools, Magdalen Laundries, Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, and the comparable experiences of those who were boarded out. This holistic approach recognises both the unique and shared...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...all survivors of historical institutional trauma. The Government has also approved high-level proposals for a national centre for research and remembrance, to be located on the site of the former Magdalen laundry on Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin city centre. This centre will stand as a national memorial and site of conscience to honour equally all of those who were resident in mother...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (18 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Howlin: 1480. To ask the Minister for Health if a HAA card has been provided to all survivors of Magdalene laundries as recommended by the report on Magdalene laundries; if survivors of the New Ross Magdalene laundry are included in this provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16860/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Adoption Services (30 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: .... I am happy we have acted already. We made an amendment through the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill to include more information. Recently, for example, the Justice For Magdalenes group has flagged an issue about some of the records from Magdalen institutions in private ownership. We are looking at the issue, and if necessary and if it will address the particular...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Funding (29 Mar 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...to clear the air. The issue on the table is the allocation of €1.1 million to LGBTQ+ projects, having been diverted from schemes for the Traveller and Roma communities, migrant integration and Magdalen laundries redress. This was revealed by Deputy Tóibín through documents uncovered by a freedom of information request. The Minister’s personal request in 2021 to...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (28 Mar 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...and Youth to make a statement on the process of selection of recipients for funding for projects from unspent moneys from schemes for the Traveller and Roma communities, migrant integration and Magdalen laundries redress fund. Senator Timmy Dooley - The need for the Minister for Transport to ensure adequate funding is provided to local authorities for the reinstatement and improvement of...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (23 Mar 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...and Youth to make a statement on the process of selection of recipients for funding for projects from unspent moneys from schemes for the Traveller and Roma communities, migrant integration and Magdalen laundry redress fund. Senator Róisín Garvey - The need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make a statement on the development of new water treatment...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...of the book Deputy Bacik referred to, but I have not yet had time to read it, so I cannot comment on the assertions made by the authors or adjudicate on them. In relation to records relating to Magdalen laundries, major work is currently under way to establish a central repository of records within the national centre for research and remembrance. The repository will encompass records...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (22 Mar 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...and Youth to make a statement on the process for the selection of recipients for funding for projects from unspent moneys from schemes for the Traveller and Roma communities, migrant integration and the Magdalen laundry redress fund. Of the matters raised by the Senators suitable for discussion, I have selected Senators Currie, Boyhan, Cummins, Dooley, Kyne and Gavan, and they will be...

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: ...trauma. I attended a meeting a while ago at which the intergenerational trauma of people who start to use substances in order to cope with the parental trauma that came down from the industrial schools, the Magdalen laundries and the mother and baby homes was discussed. I am from a disadvantaged community. There is the trauma of disadvantaged communities and the trauma of poverty....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (21 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...initiatives to promote equality for women and girls D08: Equality and LGBTI+ Initiatives To meet costs of funding for LGBTI+ community services. 150,000 12/11/2021 C09: Magdalen Fund To meet the cost for claims received under the Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme for women in the Magadalen laundries. D08: Equality and...