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Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Seán Kyne: ...benefit; domiciliary care; farm assist; guardian payment; illness benefit; invalidity pension; job initiative schemes such as the jobseeker's allowance and the jobseeker's transitional payment; the Magdalen Commission scheme; the death benefit scheme; the one parent family payment; the partial capacity; rural social schemes; the State pension - contributory and non-contributory; the...

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

Seán Kyne: ...14 institutions and a representative sample of county homes to be selected by the commission. The interdepartmental committee report to establish the facts around State involvement in the Magdalen laundries dealt with institutions in County Galway. I recall the poignant State apology in February 2013 to the victims and survivors of the laundries. The Ryan report on child abuse...

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

Seán Kyne: .... It had a capacity of 110 individuals and various occupancy rates, from 110 in 1951, to 73 in 1954 and 18 in 1984 the year of its closure. There were gaps in the information in the records of the Galway Magdalen laundry. When I spoke on this issue in the House last October I reported having seen copies of the 1911 census which showed women of all ages, all Roman Catholic and from...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Kyne: ...whereby some children have to spend most of their childhoods in foster care because of a ban on voluntary adoption of the children of married parents. This week the Dáil debated a motion on the Magdalene laundries, which was one tragic and shameful chapter of our recent history. Together with the Ryan and Murphy reports into the abuse of children, either in parishes or...

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

Seán Kyne: The Magdalene laundries are perhaps the most powerful symbol of the inhumanity and brutality which formed a part of Irish society in the 20th century. It is almost incomprehensible to my generation and to younger generations that such institutions were allowed to exist. Moreover, the laundry system was supported by the State through commercial contracts and, outrageously, through society's...

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

Seán Kyne: The Magdalene laundries are perhaps the most powerful symbol of the inhumanity and brutality which formed a part of Irish society in the 20th century. It is almost incomprehensible to my generation and to younger generations that such institutions were allowed to exist. Moreover, the laundry system was supported by the State through commercial contracts and, outrageously, through society's...