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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (18 Apr 2023)

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]

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...on a difficult journey from the establishment of this State, the centenary of which we are celebrating, where women were chattels; subservient; required to leave the Civil Service on marriage; incarcerated in Magdalen laundries; subjected to symphysiotomy; denied their basic human and sexual rights; and, most oppressive of all, made silent in their suffering. All of us have heard down the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...on Seán McDermott Street. That capital project is long overdue. Other major projects include the Rutland Street school, which is to be a multipurpose facility with a community base for the area; the Magdalen convent and its grounds; and the magnificent but dilapidated Aldborough House, which I understand is subject to separate planning. When will we see these projects taking shape?...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has issued any alerts to Irish embassies since October 2014 on the Magdalene restorative justice scheme; if not, the reason this is the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9607/17]

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...women, and to the most vulnerable in our society revealed again and again a shocking litany of disregard for citizens. This Government was the first, after decades, to deal with the case of the Magdalen laundry women, and I am proud of our record in addressing it. We will address this issue, too. We will address it in a comprehensive way, because it is not, as the Deputy rightly says,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Statistics (10 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...Group, primarily to deal with pressures relating to Garda pay, and also to allow for certain other additional expenditure including the first of the payments to the women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalene Laundries. This additional requirement is partially funded by savings from elsewhere in the Justice Vote group which amount to at least €23.5 million. - As...

Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (21 Nov 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...the justice and health groups of Votes. A Supplementary Estimate of just over €51 million will be required for the justice area, largely in respect of Garda pay. There is also €5 million for the Magdalen laundries issue, but savings will be made in the justice Vote. The position in the health sector is under review and my Department is working with the Department of Health...

Other Questions: Estimates Process (21 Nov 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...primarily to deal with pressures relating to Garda pay, and also to allow for certain other additional expenditure including the first of the payments to the women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalene Laundries. The position on the health Estimate remains under review and the Department of Health is working to contain the level of the Supplementary Estimate needed. A...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (21 Nov 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ..., which would not be right either. I will finish the point relating to the Department of Justice and Equality. We have allocated an additional €5 million for the first instalment of the Magdalen payments, which was not accounted for but to which nobody would object. The Deputy mentioned the €51 million, which is a gross figure, and there are savings being made within the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...of Taoiseach. It inquired in some detail about a number of matters: the arrangements for the inauguration of the President, the cost, the invitations issued and all the rest; all correspondence related to the Magdalen laundry cases; the information technology used in the Department of the Taoiseach; and all uses to which the Government jet had been put. All of this was purported to be...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...consulted. Let us then put it into the public domain and have a full debate about the matters here and draw conclusions. The Deputy goes further and refers to other matters. She referenced the Magdalen laundries. This is the first Government in generations which has given a standing to and a recognition of the terrible wrong done to those women. Deputy McDonald mentioned the X case....

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Jan 2010)

Brendan Howlin: ...of Justice, Equality and Law Reform that women and young girls were routinely committed by order of the courts and other mechanisms to institutions and homes run by religious orders, known as Magdalene laundries, to ask whether the Minister will make a statement and outline the position in respect of files and records held by Departments, if these files will be released and what the...