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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...access to a range of health supports through the HSE, including GP services, home nursing and home helps, chiropody and podiatry and physiotherapy. This approach is consistent with the approach taken in respect of the Magdalen laundries and mother and baby institutions schemes. Similarly, the €3,000 health support payment for survivors who are living abroad is consistent with the...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...spending a considerable part of their lives within it. This legislation provides help to those young adults who have no family or social network to support them. We have come a long way from the Magdalen laundries and the workhouses. I commend the Minister and his officials on bringing forward this legislation.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...stereotype. Until the introduction of the Status of Children Act 1987, the concept of bastardry and illegitimacy was alive and well in our system. Eighteen so-called fallen women remained in the Magdalen laundry in Galway until it closed in 1984, within the living memory of Members of this House. Since the foundation of the State, brutality was meted out to men and women in religious...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Catherine McGuinness (19 Jun 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...improve the lived experience of our citizens and our children. My question concerns the recent revelations about residential institutions such as industrial schools, mother and baby homes and the Magdalen Laundries as well as matters relating to forced adoptions and vaccine trials. When I first raised the matter of mother and baby homes in the House some weeks ago, it was on the basis of...