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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015): James Heffernan: ...and children on these shores. In Ireland, we have a shameful and diabolical way of treating victims of institutional abuse in particular. This morning, I met with many of the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. There are a number of things they are not happy about. One is that we are still stigmatising and labelling these people, as if they had committed some horrendous crime. As...
Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Catherine McGuinness (19 Jun 2014): James Heffernan: ...she could lend support to the provision of a memorial to the victims of institutional abuse. There are more than 130 such institutions around the country and I am not including asylums, the Magdalen laundries or mother and baby homes. We have nothing to remind us of their existence or that this abuse of children took place. It is incumbent on the Government and various Departments, be...

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