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Mental Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2014): Áine Collins: Over the years, we have been trying to deal with many and various injustices of the past, issues like child abuse, mother and children homes, and the Magdalen Laundries. As a society our attitude towards mental health has been appalling. We stigmatised people with mental health problems and in many cases committed them to institutional care. Care was not the motivation. We simply locked...
Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011): Áine Collins: ...his new position. The board has supported and invested strongly in the Irish film industry between 1993 and 2004 with some notable successes. Board-backed Irish films such as "I Went Down", "The Magdalene Sisters", "Man about Dog" and "Intermission" received critical and commercial success. In 2005, the award winning "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" was shot in Ballyvourney and...

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