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Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Joan Collins: ...can easily access the records necessary to establish their identity. "RTÉ Investigates" was yet more shocking evidence of the callous mistreatment of women and their babies to go alongside the Magdalen laundries, the mother and baby homes, the county homes and, in this instance, the illegal and criminal falsification of birth registration of children born to women outside of...

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: ...This is absolute madness, but also very dangerous. On direct provision, the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, MASI, has described direct provision as a shame on Ireland, comparable to the Magdalen Laundries. When direct provision was introduced, it was claimed that it was meant to be a temporary measure for six months. If that was the case, it might be tolerable. The average...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: ...year, it is expected to be 14.3%. In 2016, the rate of long-term unemployment was 4.3%. It is currently 2.1%. There has been no real progress in this area. Page 176 refers to the number of Magdalen commission customers in payment. The Department needs to be a little more sensitive in regard to Magdalen survivors. They should perhaps be recorded as Magdalen survivors rather than...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Joan Collins: ...the direct provision system as a severe violation of human rights. Direct provision cuts off a whole community from another community. That is what happened in the industrial schools, the Magdalen laundries and the mother and baby homes. A whole layer of people was cut off from general society, was isolated and its voice was cut off in many ways. While doing that was an attempt to keep...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)

Joan Collins: ...we all came here this morning to discuss the conditions in which people lived in the decades following the foundation of this so-called republic. The treatment of people in mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries and industrial schools as well as our attitude towards services for disabled children was appalling. We have a unique opportunity now to get to the bottom of this issue and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 507. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the mechanism to deal with health care for survivors of the Magdalen laundries who live overseas (details supplied) [9772/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (23 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 99. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has established the fund to provide access for Magdalen laundries survivors to complementary therapies under the ex gratia scheme (details supplied). [9383/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Report (23 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 290. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the mechanism to deal with health care for survivors of the Magdalen Laundries that live overseas, as referred to by the previous Minister on 24 September 2014. [9382/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 475. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made on the provision of an administrative scheme, under her Department, to assist Magdalen survivors in availing of complementary therapies. [11581/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 476. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of liaison officers that will be employed to assist the Magdalen survivors in understanding their entitlements; and if the liaison officers will operate centrally from her Department or on a local basis. [11586/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 542. To ask the Minister for Health when the Magdalen survivors will receive their enhanced medical cards. [11582/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 543. To ask the Minister for Health the application process for the enhanced medical cards for Magdalen survivors. [11583/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 544. To ask the Minister for Health when the Magdalen survivors will receive a guide to their enhanced medical card. [11584/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 545. To ask the Minister for Health if a complaints and appeals process will be put in place for Magdalen survivors availing of the enhanced medical card scheme. [11589/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 546. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will contact all general practitioners, public and private, hospitals and other relevant health service providers of Magdalen survivors entitlements under the enhanced medical card. [11590/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 547. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to ensure that Magdalen survivors do not have to resolve any difficulties with the enhanced medical card scheme or explain their entitlements to health care professionals. [11591/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 549. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the administrative arrangements for Magdalen survivors living overseas. [11598/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 550. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive has contacted the health service providers in each of the countries where Magdalen survivors are known to be living. [11599/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 551. To ask the Minister for Health if guides will be made available to Magdalen survivors living overseas to assist them in understanding their entitlements under the administrative arrangements. [11600/15]

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: We are not the only ones asking these questions but Justice for Magdalenes is also raising these concerns. I asked the Minister last week if she had contacted that organisation to give it a full picture of what the State is putting in place, including the legislation and what she says she is considering outside it. That would have been a better approach and given the Justice for Magdalenes...