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Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013): John Paul Phelan: ...Member but they refused to take any heed of the difficulties that might arise. We have had an historic week in the House with the Taoiseach making an appropriate apology to the victims of the Magdalen laundries. The previous week, one of the most scandalously politicised motions was tabled by the Fianna Fáil Party, as it tried to make a political football out of that issue....
Symphysiotomy: Statements (15 Mar 2012): John Paul Phelan: ..." is a mild term for the way in which the affected women were treated. Worse, it seems this savagery was visited on the most vulnerable. Women who were detained, often illegally, in the so-called Magdalene homes, including single mothers and the poor, may have been doubly victimised through being subjected to bush-clinic obstetrics in a modern country. I am a practising Catholic but...

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