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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised) (12 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...have on the Minister’s Department? The refuges are still being funded by Tusla. Will that be the plan going forward? Is there any more information? Out of interest, I had never seen the Magdalen fund referenced. Perhaps I just missed it before. Has there been some new interest in that? Is that partly because of all of the discussions on mother and baby institutions, redress...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (11 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 616. To ask the Minister for Health when Magdalene survivors can receive their Health (Amendment) Act 1996 cards as promised in the redress package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49843/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...be looked at in a set timeframe. It is necessary to consider these aspects in the context of the overall experience. So much research exists now in this area, even compared to when some of the Magdalen laundry schemes were designed. My next question is for Ms O'Kennedy. Are we potentially making a mistake by examining other schemes? This is not done intentionally, but sometimes...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...was resident in any other institution offering social care/support either prior to or subsequent to the adopted person’s birth; (xxii) information regarding whether the mother stayed at the institution with the adopted person prior to their placement with the adoptive parents; (xxiii) any anecdotal information regarding the adopted person’s stay in the institution ...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...was resident in any other institution offering social care/support either prior to or subsequent to the adopted person’s birth; (xxii) information regarding whether the mother stayed at the institution with the adopted person prior to their placement with the adoptive parents; (xxiii) any anecdotal information regarding the adopted person’s stay in the institution; (xxiv)...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I move amendment No. 39: In page 10, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(a) whether the relevant person’s mother was transferred from a Magdalene Laundry or another institution, to the Mother and Baby Home prior to giving birth and if so, details of the circumstances,”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I move amendment No. 40: In page 10, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(a) whether the relevant person’s mother was transferred from the Mother and Baby Home to a Magdalene Laundry or other institution, and if so, details of the circumstances,”.

Violence Against Women: Statements (19 Jan 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...data together. I am always struck in these debates by our history in relation to women. Since the foundation of the State, we have not had a good history in this regard, in particular with the Magdalen laundries and mother and baby institutions. We cannot keep repeating mistakes and continuously have debates here during which we declare that we are shocked and outraged. We as...

Farrelly Commission of Investigation Substantive Interim Reports: Statements (11 Nov 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: ...could have an impact on 46 others is wholly unacceptable. That this State has an appalling record when it comes to the treatment of children is a depressing understatement. When one considers Magdalen laundries, mother and baby institutions and industrial schools, it seems that, unfortunately, we never appear to be able to learn any sort of lesson and make positive changes. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jun 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: 347. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the other supports that have been put in place to assist the former residents of the institutions outside of the Magdalen restorative justice ex-gratia scheme including the overall spend on health, housing, educational and counselling services; and the initial allocation and final spend, respectively, in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jun 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: 345. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding allocated to the Magdalen restorative justice ex-gratia scheme; the number of applications approved and paid to date; the average payment; the number of in progress applications; the number of applications that are ineligible; the number of applications appealed; the number of applications awaiting...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jun 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: 346. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding allocated to the Magdalen restorative justice ex-gratia scheme for administrative purposes including staffing, legal and premises costs. [34230/21]

Special Needs Education Places: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: ...again - and I am sick of hearing myself saying this, so I am sure that everybody else is sick of it too - that we have consistently failed children in the State. We all know the stories of the industrial homes and the Magdalen laundries and yet here we are failing children again. I believe that 20 or 30 years down the road everybody will wonder, "How did we let this happen?" We are...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: ...over the years, unfortunately, we do not have a good track record. There have been several apologies on behalf of the State over the past number of years, including to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. The Taoiseach rightly apologised to Joanne Hayes yesterday. However, if we are genuinely sorry about how we treated women over many years, then let us take the opportunity to amend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: ...Does he or she come back to the ombudsman time and again? What is the best advice the ombudsman can give? I agree with Dr. Muldoon's comments on direct provision. I believe they are modern day Magdalen laundries, but in a different context. Given this State's history with children it is not good enough for us all to be shocked in ten or 15 years time when stories emerge. We know what...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: ...The message that comes across is one of "get over it and move on", which, unfortunately, is the way we deal with everything in this country. How many times have we debated mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and so on in this House, all of us using words such as "terrible" and "horrible" in that regard yet we are allowing similar things to happen. This is happening under our...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue which is of huge concern to many of us here. With good reason, direct provision can be called the Magdalen laundries of our time. I believe it will be the subject of inquiry in years to come. Direct provision centres are often referred to as holding camps and sites of deportability. The Free Legal Advice Centres states that these privately...

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

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue, particularly as a woman and as a mother. I feel it is quite personal, to a certain extent, as somebody who potentially could have been sent to a Magdalen laundry for having a child out of wedlock if I had been born in a different generation. I always think of that when I am reading the stories. While I welcome the establishment of the...