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Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I refer to an article in this week's Irish Examinerthat made reference to Magdalen campaigners and human rights groups addressing the Government's legislation on the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institution Bill 2014. They called the Bill "unacceptable, unfair and full of broken promises". Sinn Féin is in full accord with the assessment of these groups. Last month, the...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (21 Jan 2015)

Sandra McLellan: ...rights. It was noted that the Government must respond to the commission's findings with a more faithful adherence to its obligations under international human rights law than in the case of the Magdalen laundries. Victims should be able to participate effectively in the commission's investigations and be consulted on key issues where their interests are affected. They should be treated...

Interdepartmental Report on the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (17 Jul 2014)

Sandra McLellan: ...by several United Nations bodies regarding State failures to properly investigate and provide effective remedies in compliance with its international treaty obligations in the case of the survivors of the Magdalen laundries and in light of the international dimensions of the issues that will come before it, the commission of investigation should be led by an international judicial figure...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Sandra McLellan: ...to Inquire into Child Abuse, generally known as the Ryan commission, whose report was published in 2009, the Ferns inquiry, the Cloyne report and the Murphy report. We also had the scandal of the Magdalen laundries. The State is still failing to face up to its responsibilities in regard to the Bethany Home or to apologise to its victims. If we were to have adopted the approach the...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: ...and its institutions facilitate this oppression, it activelyassisted the church through Government institutions and social policy. The Irish system of government and our State institutions reproduced the Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes, industrial schools and a class structure that ensured the poor and the working classes were kept at the bottom of the economic ladder and that...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Sandra McLellan: ...again on this exceptionally disturbing issue, one of the most important to come before the House since the foundation of the State. I welcome the Taoiseach's official apology to survivors of the Magdalen laundries which he gave in the House on 19 February. It was moving to see so many of the surviving women and their supporters, friends and families in the Visitors Gallery on the evening...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (26 Feb 2013)

Sandra McLellan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the families of persons who are now deceased but who spent time in the Magdalene Laundries will be entitled to claim from the redress board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10110/13]

Magdalen Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2013)

Sandra McLellan: ...important and pressing issue. This is perhaps one of the most important, if not the most important, issues to come before the House since the foundation of the State. I say this because the Magdalen laundries, the way in which they were run and the total denial of the rights and well-being of the incarcerated women shed an important light on the dysfunctional nature of the State's...

Supreme Court Ruling in the X Case: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Nov 2012)

Sandra McLellan: ...again, we find ourselves in the Chamber discussing the lives of women in the context of life, pain and death. In the past 12 months, the House has debated the rights of women incarcerated in the Magdalene laundries, symphysiotomy and, more recently, the disgraceful cuts to the working hours of home helps, the majority of whom are women. The common thread that links these issues is that...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2012)

Sandra McLellan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. The purpose of this motion is to challenge the Government to act on the immediate measures necessary to support the survivors of the Magdalene laundries based on the information already in the public domain. To suggest this information is now virtually beyond dispute is almost an understatement. However, in spite of this the women...