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National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...feel that any link between the new hospital and the church, albeit through a private company, is a grave insult to the many victims of the church with particular emphasis on those impacted by the Magdalen laundries and the mother and baby homes. In reality, the nuns have passed the ownership to a company established by the church. This company will have three representatives on the board...

Health (General Practitioner Services) Bill 2014: Motion to Instruct Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Denis Naughten: .... During the Order of Business this morning, the Minister for Education and Skills said on behalf of the Government that new legislation would be introduced before the summer recess. It is to be rushed through so women who were in Magdalen laundries will actually get a medical card. If the Government had accepted my amendment today, it could have facilitated this process by statutory...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Denis Naughten: ..., that the payments in question – there are only a handful of them – should be excluded from the social welfare calculation in the same way as compensation payments made to women under the Magdalen laundries redress scheme. It is an anomaly and I call on the Minister to deal with it as a matter of urgency. Sadly, I cannot table an amendment because it would result in a...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Denis Naughten: ...example, young people who were compensated by the HSE owng to neglect, is subject to means assessment by her Department, even though the compensation of every other victim such as the victims of Magdalen laundries and so forth is exempt from calculation under the social welfare system. We are not learning from the past in ensuring mistakes made in the past are not repeated in the future....

Other Questions: Direct Provision System (27 Feb 2014)

Denis Naughten: Twelve months ago, the Taoiseach described the Catholic-run workhouses as the nation's shame. I am firmly of the view that the current operation of the direct provision system is the Magdalen laundries scandal of this generation. Some day, a Taoiseach will have to come before the Dáil and make a similar apology to Irish citizens whose lives have been destroyed by these modern day...