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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: One-Parent Family Payments (19 Jun 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...thousands of babies of single mothers who apparently had been discarded cruelly and largely against their mothers' wishes. This time last year we were celebrating because the women who had been in Magdalen laundries were finally being awarded compensation having been submitted to a lifetime of torture and punishment for having a child outside marriage. Today, however, single parents are...

Seanad: Domestic Violence: Motion (8 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Finally, and I beg the Acting Chairman's indulgence, I commend COPE Galway on having a new premises gifted to it by the Magdalen laundry within the past two weeks. In itself, that constitutes a renewal but the Minister of State should note COPE Galway now requires money for funding. More details will come to the Minister of State and while this is good news, it needs money to-----

Seanad: Domestic Violence: Motion (8 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...in 2011. The way the State has treated women over the years has been less than commendable, and it will take a long time to shake that record off completely. We are making some amends with the Magdalen laundries women, and the same applies to those affected by symphysiotomy. Yesterday, however, an Oireachtas committee held hearings and ruled against a request by women who have had...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...of our Taoiseach today, proud that he had the capacity to deliver such a meaningful apology and to provide an indication of the compensation deal on behalf of the Government and the people to the Magdalen women.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...and they were so happy they were walking 10 ft. tall. They put it to me that a great weight had been lifted off their shoulders. They are new women today. However, I am not only proud for the Magdalen women, I am proud for Ireland. We have had such a blackened and hidden past but what we did as a Government yesterday lifted the veil off that. This has been a good day for women,...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...of our Taoiseach today, proud that he had the capacity to deliver such a meaningful apology and to provide an indication of the compensation deal on behalf of the Government and the people to the Magdalen women.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...and they were so happy they were walking 10 ft. tall. They put it to me that a great weight had been lifted off their shoulders. They are new women today. However, I am not only proud for the Magdalen women, I am proud for Ireland. We have had such a blackened and hidden past but what we did as a Government yesterday lifted the veil off that. This has been a good day for women,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I was hoping the Minister for Education would be able to be here, but I know he has been detained for the sake of the Magdalen apology in the Dáil. The story I will bring to the attention of the Minister of State is one I expect he will hear a lot more about and I believe it is a national story. It is a national disgrace to leave the children...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I was hoping the Minister for Education would be able to be here, but I know he has been detained for the sake of the Magdalen apology in the Dáil. The story I will bring to the attention of the Minister of State is one I expect he will hear a lot more about and I believe it is a national story. It is a national disgrace to leave the children...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Like others, I will wait to hear the announcement this afternoon on the Magdalen laundries. I hope we bring finality and that justice will be done in a way that is meaningful and fitting for the servitude in which these women, girls and children were placed for decades. I thank the Leader and the Seanad Public Consultation Committee for arranging the public consultation that will take place...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...McAleese has done the State some service. His report records a blight on our social history - on the Ireland which we have come from. It showed that more than 10,000 women were committed to the Magdalen laundries, one of which was in Galway from where I come. More than one quarter of these women were referrals made by the State. What is significant about this report is that all of...

Seanad: Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...of unmarried parents could be adopted. The constitutional position in this regard was quite confused because in the past the unmarried mothers of the children to whom I refer were thrown into the Magdalene laundries and abused. We are all aware of the position in which the State finds itself in respect of that matter. It is high time we rectified the inequalities that have affected the...