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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (5 Mar 2015)

Anne Ferris: 162. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commit to making a scheme available under her Department to assist Magdalen survivors in availing of complementary therapies. [9858/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (5 Mar 2015)

Anne Ferris: 164. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commit to providing personal advocates to all Magdalen survivors who are deemed to lack capacity, whether they are living in institutional settings, in the care of the relevant religious orders or in the community. [9863/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (5 Mar 2015)

Anne Ferris: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Magdalen survivors who have enhanced medical cards will have the same entitlements to dental, ophthalmic and aural treatment, and dental, ophthalmic and aural appliances, as Health (Amendment) Act card holders, save where those treatments and services relate specifically to hepatitis C and the Magdalen survivor does not suffer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (5 Mar 2015)

Anne Ferris: 172. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Magdalen survivors who have enhanced medical cards will have the same entitlements to drugs, medicines and appliances as Health (Amendment) Act card holders, save where those drugs, medicines and appliances relate specifically to hepatitis C and the Magdalen survivor does not suffer from hepatitis C. [9856/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (5 Mar 2015)

Anne Ferris: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the immediate relatives of Magdalen survivors who have enhanced medical cards will have the same entitlement to counselling and psychotherapy as the immediate relatives of Health (Amendment) Act card holders, save the counselling for the immediate relatives of Magdalen survivors will relate to their connection to Magdalen laundries...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (5 Mar 2015)

Anne Ferris: 174. To ask the Minister for Health when the Magdalen survivors will receive their enhanced medical cards; when the Magdalen survivors will receive a guide to their enhanced medical card; the number of liaison officers who will be employed and when; if there will be an application process; if so, what will this entail; and if a complaints and appeals process has been put in place. [9859/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (5 Mar 2015)

Anne Ferris: 175. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will contact all general practitioners, both public and private, hospitals and other relevant health service providers to inform them of Magdalen survivors’ entitlements under the enhanced medical card; and the measures being taken to ensure that Magdalen survivors do not have to resolve any difficulties with the scheme or explain...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (5 Mar 2015)

Anne Ferris: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the administrative arrangements for Magdalene survivors living overseas. [9865/15]

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

Anne Ferris: ...of our shared mother? I know, from the documented experiences of many women of her era, that women who bore more than one baby in a mother and baby home frequently were obliged to serve time in a Magdalen laundry. Perhaps our mother managed to avoid such a sentence by not choosing the same home twice for her confinement. The evidence, however, is that most women in her circumstances...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jun 2014)

Anne Ferris: ...were but pieces in the large jigsaw puzzle known as "religious Ireland". I wrote an article last year about a Scottish man who, in 1955, talked his way into the Tuam mother and baby home and the Magdalen laundry in Galway. The man was an author, researching a book about Ireland. His name was Dr. Halliday Sutherland and his experience of both visits is related in a chapter of his book,...

Open Adoption Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2014)

Anne Ferris: ...today to support me and supported the Bill. Many good points were made. The issue Deputy Seán Crowe raised about the family he spoke to needs to be addressed. Deputy Clare Daly mentioned the Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes. We have all heard stories that would make one’s hair stand on end. I thank the former Minister, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, and wish her...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (6 Feb 2014)

Anne Ferris: 128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for the Magdalen redress scheme that have been processed; the payments made and the contribution to date of the four religious orders implicated in that scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6032/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (5 Feb 2014)

Anne Ferris: 15. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for the Magdalen redress scheme that have been processed; the payments made and the contribution to date of the four implicated religious orders to that scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5250/14]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Anne Ferris: ...of these initiatives on another occasion and look forward to monitoring their effects as they become embedded in their respective marketplaces. Today though I will speak specifically about the Magdalen laundry provision in the Bill. The legislation provides much-needed clarity on the tax status of survivors who were admitted to and worked without pay in 12 named institutions listed in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Anne Ferris: 896. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the inclusion of the Sisters of Mercy Laundry, also called House of Mercy, in Baggot Street to the redress scheme for the Magdalenes in view of the fact that the House of Mercy in Wexford was recently added; if he will detail and explain the reason one House of Mercy was added while the other in Baggot Street was not; and if he...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Anne Ferris: ...which I am closely associated. There is certainly no shame in that. I will always fight for the rights of women, whether in regard to abortion, domestic violence, justice for those who suffered in Magdalen laundries or the survivors of symphysiotomy. I have not been working in isolation in seeking to effect progress on the abortion issue. The realisation of this legislation is due in...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Feb 2013)

Anne Ferris: They say the past is a foreign country and that they do things differently there. When it comes to the Magdalen laundries, I wish the church and State had done things differently. Wishing, however, does not make it so. We must live in the present where a meaningful apology is owed by the congregations and the State to so many women who spent part or most of their lives caught in the...