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Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Micheál Martin: .... The centre will stand as a site of conscience and will be a national memorial to honour, equally, all those who were resident in mother and baby homes, industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalen laundries and related institutions. The centre will be located on the site of the former Magdalen laundry on Seán McDermott Street in Dublin city centre and will comprise a museum and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...by Government. The information and tracing legislation is making progress in the Oireachtas. The burials legislation also has been published. We spoke earlier about the decision that the former Magdalen laundry on Seán McDermott Street will be the location of the new national centre for research and remembrance. The Secretary General of my Department did a lot of work in that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...place to live and work. I very much welcome today's announcement of Government approval of high-level proposals for a national centre for research and remembrance, which will be situated on the site of the former Magdalen laundry on Seán MacDermott Street. The centre will stand as a national memorial to honour all those who were resident in mother and baby homes, industrial...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----on the same basis as the Magdalen laundries. That is my understanding, but I will get this issue checked for the Deputy.

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...is a basic right. We will also be advancing a range of related actions to support access to personal information and to ensure appropriate and sensitive archiving of institutional records. On restorative recognition, similar to the Magdalenes, an enhanced medical card will be given to former residents of mother and baby homes and county homes. This will be in addition to counselling,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...It is coming to an end but we will have a look at it. I am talking to the Minister for Education about that. Deputy McDonald asked about records relating to the mother and baby homes and the Magdalen laundries. Access to the commission's archive is governed by the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 rather than the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: My Department has not received any Data or Subject Access Requests in relation to the Report of the Inter Departmental Committee into the Magdalen Laundries which was published in 2013. There is a dedicated Data Protection Officer (DPO) in place to oversee my Department’s compliance with the GDPR. The DPO is assisted in this role by a number of Data Protection Liaison Officers in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...someone was trying to undermine people's rights or to seal off archives. That is the opposite of the intention of setting up a commission of inquiry in the first instance. The same applies to the Magdalen laundries, which the then Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, initiated an inquiry into. It was to open it up. GDPR applies to all records since it is a European law. People can apply for access...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...being put into a vault to which no one has access and left there for a long time. As a Government, we have decided to establish a national centre in which the archives of the industrial schools, Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes will be held. It will not only be an archive. We will try to be creative. This is where the story of dark chapters of our past will be told....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 367. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her officials are considering setting up an independent inquiry into the Magdalen laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26041/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 368. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality whether she or her Department believe there will be any prosecutions made following the McAleese report on the Magdalen laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26042/15]

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Micheál Martin: Over many decades thousands of women spent time in Magdalen laundries because the State put them there. Thousands more went to the laundries because they had no alternative. They worked and lived in harsh conditions, often deprived of the most basic freedoms. This should not have been allowed. The State failed in its duties towards its citizens and it is right and proper that on behalf of...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)

Micheál Martin: ...schools and I chaired an interdepartmental committee that led, in May 1999, to a State apology to the survivors of the industrial schools. I regret and am sorry that we did not deal with the Magdalen laundries question in tandem with the industrial schools issue. They were huge issues at the time involving enormous numbers. The point I would make from my experience of having met the...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)

Micheál Martin: ..., have to commend and pay tribute to Senator Martin McAleese and his team for the comprehensive and substantive report which has revealed hitherto unknown facts about State involvement in the Magdalen laundries. It was the right decision to set up such a committee. It was a good decision. It is a comprehensive and substantive report. However, for whatever reason - rightly or wrongly -...