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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

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...

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?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Feb 2019)

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]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...found herself in a desperate situation, with nowhere to go, with no help from any quarter. The only place to go was across the water, to leave the country or disappear into what were once the Magdalen laundries or the mother and baby homes. It is time we grew up a little. It is time we learned that women had lives as well, that they are entitled to due and fair consideration and that...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...Bill. Many of the same issues arose again as well as quite a lot of unpleasantness, allegations and counter-allegations. In more recent times, in the past couple of years, we have spoken about the Magdalen laundries, the mother and baby homes and the way pregnant women were treated in this country for a long time, and it was not only in this country but in other jurisdictions as well....

Order of Business (25 Nov 2014)

Bernard Durkan: ...certain criteria have been observed it might be better to have a debate on this matter as soon as possible to influence policy generally in that area. When will the legislation arising from the Magdalen commission report, the redress for women who were in certain institutions Bill, come before the House? Is it likely to be cleared before the end of this session?

Topical Issue Matters (2 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: ...Health to make a statement on the renewed prospect of industrial action by non-consultant hospital doctors; (10) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to urgently open the education fund for survivors of the Magdalen laundries; (11) Deputy Joan Collins - the urgent need for engagement between local development company workers and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local...

Topical Issue Matters (25 Sep 2013)

Bernard Durkan: ...north east; (20) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss the downgrading of domestic violence services in Wexford; and (21) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to re-open the education fund for survivors of the Magdalene laundries. The matters raised by Deputies Derek Nolan, Ann Phelan and Brendan Griffin; Catherine Byrne; Brendan Smith; and Michael Healy-Rae have been selected for discussion.

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: When the matter was adjourned yesterday evening I was suggesting that we must give recognition to the women who are the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. They stayed with the subject and were not put off by the fact that they were not heard or that their issue was not addressed. We owe them a great debt of gratitude for remaining with the subject and seeing out their case and cause, and...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: ...excellent and poignant speeches on this matter just a week ago. Their speeches served to address in some small way and publicly highlight the issues that affected a number of women who were in the Magdalen laundries over the years. Some of them were sent there as children by institutions of the State and others by their relatives. Some even went voluntarily with the high hope that they...

Topical Issue Matters (6 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: ...of cochlear implants; (3) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald - the need for the State to provide an apology and other assistance including a transparent redress scheme for the surviving women in the Magdalen laundries; (4) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the findings of the interdepartmental report of the State's involvement in the Magdalen laundries during the 20th century; (5) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan -...

Written Answers — Institutional Abuse: Institutional Abuse (12 Jan 2011)

Bernard Durkan: Question 360: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received any correspondence in relation to Justice to Magdalene campaign; her plans to address this matter at an early date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48501/10]