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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...survivors of residential institutions, who are at issue in the legislation before the House, but what was effectively a regime of residential institutions which were connected in lots of ways. The Magdalen laundries, residential schools, county homes and the mother and baby homes were all part of the same superstructure. There was a whole philosophy of putting people in residential...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...rein to establish, run and perpetuate this regime. It was part of a whole system. Sometimes we can talk about these things as separate and distinguish between the industrial schools, the Magdalen laundries, the mother and baby homes and the county homes. While there were differences and there are different issues, ultimately they were all part of the same system and culture and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...emotional well-being, and it is important that those supports are there, but these people have material needs as well that have not been fully addressed. The pension, which was provided to the Magdalen laundries survivors, is a huge issue for them. It would provide stability and a decent standard of income in their final years as well as housing and enhanced health care as was provided...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...in 2019 and came up with a number of recommendations. Those recommendations centred around fundamental things such as enhanced medical care or an enhanced medical card, housing entitlements, or a pension, as was the case with the survivors of the Magdalen institutions. Those proposals were submitted late in 2019, which is now more than three years ago. I understand there was one further...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We will be supporting this legislation although we have some reservations about elements of it. The State has a desperate legacy in respect of the women in the Magdalen laundries. It is not an item that can be considered in isolation. It is part of a wider network and system of institutionalisation that extended to mother and baby homes, county homes and other institutions. It really is a...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Sep 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...legislation was required. It would have been open to him, in the same way as it is open to the current Minister, to bring forward a constitutional amendment, and he should have done so. That this motion is before us is in part down to what we have seen emerge in the past few decades in the form of scandals concerning mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries, industrial schools and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...of something of a footnote. He stated Mr. Justice Quirke had considered and discounted the issue of double recovery. Does he believe it is relevant in this context that those who went through the Magdalen redress scheme have signed waivers in regard to their right of action?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: My final questions relate to correspondence sent to the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan, and circulated to several Deputies by Justice for Magdalenes, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and several other organisations. Mr. Tyndall's recommendations strongly emphasised the need to write to all women affected to inform them of developments in the case, the report and, in particular, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That correspondence quotes the recommendations of Mr. Justice Quirke on pensions, namely, that Magdalen survivors be put in the position that they would have occupied if they had acquired sufficient stamps to qualify for the State contributory pension. On that basis, does Mr. Tyndall agree that the pension payments to which such survivors would be entitled should be backdated to retirement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I asked about Ombudsman pension payments. Mr. Justice Quirke said Magdalen laundry survivors should be put in the position they would have occupied had they acquired sufficient stamps to qualify for the contributory State pension. Does Mr. Martin believe it should include a backdating of pension payments to retirement age, rather than simply to the beginning of the administration of the scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Therefore, there is no acceptance that the State is legally liable for the Magdalenes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...the Minister will do the same, with less justification or rationale. Mr. Martin said the Department did not have the discretion or authority to include An Grianán and similar institutions in the Magdalen laundry scheme. He said they found themselves alone in a harsh, physically demanding work environment. Is it not fair to say forced labour was a significant part of the Magdalen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...that made labour, including forced labour, a significant consideration. I suggest, although I may be mistaken, that part of the reason the Ombudsman felt there was no requirement to revisit the Magdalen laundry scheme or anything like it was the fact that many of the complainants had been residents of the industrial schools or residential institutions but had been subject to forced labour...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Mr. Martin has stated the Government's position was that residents of the industrial institutions would not be eligible because they were not residents of the Magdalen institutions. Given that the avenue of their claims was forced labour, on what basis was it discounted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: When Mr. Martin states it specifically excluded those who had been in the residential institutions and related specifically to those who had been in Magdalen institutions, what does being in a Magdalen institution specifically require? I want to clarify this aspect. Was it strictly required that they had to have been resident in all circumstances?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...were subject to one of the broad themes that at the very least had been considered by Mr. Justice Quirke in relation to forced labour. They were clearly seen as having been on the same campus as a Magdalen laundry and to a large extent could have been interpreted as having been as part of the same institution, but they would not qualify and were taking a case against the Department. At...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...that at that stage at the very least if not earlier it should have been revisited. There was a clear cross-over there at the very least between the residents of the residential institution and the Magdalen laundry on the same campus who were in a situation of forced labour together and in that context it should have been revisited. If that is the response of the Minister and if he is the...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ..., "failed to establish an independent, thorough and effective investigation, in line with international standards, into all allegations of abuse, ill-treatment or neglect of women and children in the Magdalene laundries in order to establish the role of the State and church in the perpetration of alleged violations". The terms of reference for the commission of investigation into the...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...to other mother and baby homes, particularly in the treatment, records and testimonies of survivors; - recognises that since the formation of the State, mother and baby homes, industrial schools, county homes, Magdalene laundries and numerous other bodies and institutions were part of a systematic regime that resulted in the abuse and degradation of vulnerable women and their children and...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...provide the truth to survivors. On the 15 February last in Geneva, at a hearing of the United Nations, a representative from the Department of Justice and Equality stated that while the Taoiseach made an apology to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries, he did so despite the fact that in the McAleese report there was no finding of liability. The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy...