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Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: ...area and right across Dublin. There are lots of abandoned historic buildings in the inner city, which are major eyesores for residents and visitors alike. They include Aldborough House and the former Magdalen laundry site on Sean MacDermott Street. There is a lack of imagination and political will to develop these buildings for the local community as opposed to simply serving the...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: ...of the State have been extremely conservative. They were also heavily influenced by the Catholic Church and other conservative institutions. Women were treated as second-class citizens and the Magdalen homes were a consequence of that mindset, but we have come a long way since the condom trains to the northern part of the country. Even the acquisition of the morning after pill was...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Dessie Ellis: As the full, shocking story about the home in Tuam slowly emerges, the horrors of what happened in mother and baby homes, county homes, Magdalen laundries and other institutions, including the Bethany and Westbank homes, are beyond comprehension. Sinn Féin believes we need to extend investigations beyond the current commission, which is why it was necessary to draft this Private...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (16 Jul 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 198. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 has been included under the redress scheme for Magdalen survivors for which she was interviewed some time ago, having been imprisoned at the age of 15 and spending most of her life there; if her claim is being processed; and the reason for the delay in same. [31690/14]

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2014)

Dessie Ellis: ...families and communities, and then from their children. These deaths happened under the watch of the political establishment, which in some cases benefited directly from the slave labour of the Magdalens. Some in this House were here when the church still operated its prisons 18 years ago. Children are still hurt today by the actions of a State which devalues their lives and prioritises...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Dessie Ellis: ...important issue and to speak on behalf of a group of very brave and strong people, those who survived what I have little doubt is the worst injustice ever visited on Irish people by other Irish people. The story of the Magdalene laundries is a kind of horrific catalogue of grinding injustice and every new piece of information still shocks us, despite all that has been uncovered to date....

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Dessie Ellis: ...important issue and to speak on behalf of a group of very brave and strong people, those who survived what I have little doubt is the worst injustice ever visited on Irish people by other Irish people. The story of the Magdalene laundries is a kind of horrific catalogue of grinding injustice and every new piece of information still shocks us, despite all that has been uncovered to date....