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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...To be honest, this is just more of the same. This Government has consistently had to be dragged kicking and screaming into providing redress for people, whether for CervicalCheck, institutional abuse, Magdalen laundries, or, now, the mother and baby homes. When the Government does provide redress, it often reneges on promises and tries to limit the amount it has to pay while at the same...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...oppression of Irish women goes back to the pervasive role of the Catholic Church in this country in collusion with the State, and the cruel enslavement of women in the mother and baby homes and the Magdalen laundries are testament to that. We still have hospitals where religion still pulls the strings, including the new national maternity hospital, and 90% of our Catholic schools still...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...; money to a new state-of-the-art maternity hospital, with the best facilities and all the rest of it into the control of a religious order. This a religious order that has a legacy in this State of running Magdalen laundries and having illegal adoptions through the St. Patrick’s Guild. Has it anything to do with history? Has it anything to do with the position of women for...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...form or another, and the issues in this regard have dominated the past two Dáileanna. Included are the issues of the eighth amendment, childcare costs, mother and baby homes, the lack of redress, Magdalen laundries, symphysiotomy, CervicalCheck, gender-based violence, the lack of refuge spaces and the economic struggles that women have faced, including, significantly, those of the...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2021)

Bríd Smith: .... They cannot ban it outright or object to it outright but they will try to chip away at it. The kind of Ireland that would bring us back to is the kind of Ireland that saw mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries, symphysiotomy and women being absolutely ignored in terms of their medical needs. We, as Deputies, are not in a position to pass laws that say whether medical procedures...

Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...with the Catholic Church, as we have seen through the pages of history. We are now more aware of what happened to women, with the backlash and counter-revolution against them by way of the Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes, etc. We are more aware of that now, as well as the incarceration of the poor in industrial schools. That incarceration did not exclude children and poor from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...Religious Sisters of Charity say they have gifted the St. Vincent's Hospital site to the people of Ireland. I ask if the people of Ireland are obliged to accept a gift from nuns who were involved in the Magdalen laundries, in mother and baby homes and in running a hospital that refused to provide sterilisation, vasectomy or any reproductive rights to women and men. They can take their...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...trust the State and the Department of Health with the record they have on reproductive healthcare and women's rights. It is absolutely appalling, whether we start with the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries, the X case, Savita Halappanavar, the A, B, C and Y cases, women being forced abroad, the symphysiotomy and CervicalCheck scandals or vaginal mesh surgeries. You name it...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...redress. At the heart of that redress must be the survivors themselves. I am not referring to the sort of redress that was given for the institutional abuse in the industrial schools or the Magdalen laundries; it must be redress that really matters, that takes everybody into consideration and that ensures that no stone is left unturned and that nobody is left behind. If the Minister can...

Combating Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...refuge in the immediate situation and support for women and children. There are 63 organisations listed by the Minister’s Department who receive funding. It is a bit reminiscent of the Magdalen institutions where the State is wiping its hands. This should be a fundamental role of State services without the reliance on charities. Nine out of 26 counties have no refuge. The...

State Ex Gratia Scheme: Statements (10 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...over-zealous civil servant or functionary; it is embedded in the heart of the State and its workings. If one looks at our record on hepatitis C and Brigid McCole, symphysiosotomy, Cervicalcheck, the Magdalen laundries, church-run schools and institutions, the Shane Farrell case and the long list of other issues, the speeches by chastened Ministers and leaders are similar but, frankly,...

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...country since the foundation of the State. Since 1983, we have learned a great deal with the exposure of all of the scandals around the treatment of women and children in institutions like the Magdalen laundries and the Tuam mother and baby home. However, we still have a great deal to learn about how we treat women's health. We need to bring closure quickly to the questions of...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...misleading and false and messaging that is untruthful and makes a mockery of women's lives and the deeply divisive and difficult choices they must often make. We want to move away from the legacy of the Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes in Tuam and elsewhere, the shaming and stigmatising of women and the wholesale export and outsourcing of women's healthcare to Britain and...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...generations who have been through the dark ages. They will be talking to people who know about the bishops' cover-up on sex abuse scandals, only last week one of them, Bishop McAreavey in County Down, had to resign. Issues relating to the Magdalen laundries and sex abuse scandals are all baggage that we have in this country because we have a problem with sex and sexuality and with...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Happy International Women's Day to everyone here and beyond, but in particular to the women of the Magdalen laundries, the subject of my question to the Tánaiste. Seven women of the Magdalen laundries have died since the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, made his apology to the House, and there is no sign of the redress being passed to these women. They have been treated...

Report on Lone Parents: Motion (15 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...not be left to one side, on top of the others on child poverty etc. that are piling up with no action being taken. In this House, we have had to look honestly at what the State did to women and children right back to the time of the Magdalene laundries and the time of the Tuam babies. I do not know how many times we have referred to this each week since I became a Deputy. It very much...

Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...it is an inconvenience to trade but because a hard border will strengthen partition. We oppose partition because, as James Connolly said, that partition will lead to a carnival of reaction North and South. That is what the Magdalen laundries represented, what the Tuam babies represented and what the opposition to gay rights and women's rights in the North currently represents. We intend...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...has 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". The committee urged the State "to conduct prompt, independent and thorough investigations, in line with international human rights standards, into all allegations of...

Standing Order 27: Motion (2 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...of what we might do would be silly were it not for the Tuam babies, the national maternity hospital and the Sisters of Charity, repeal the eighth and the Citizens' Assembly, the legacy of the Magdalen laundries, the Christian Brothers and the persecution that people suffered in this country, Savita Halappanavar, Ms X and Ms Y. The list goes on and on. The outcome of the Citizens'...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...with a potential 14-year sentence hanging over them. This country is changing. The message has to be sent out through measures like this that we are turning our backs on the days of the killing fields of Tuam, on the Magdalen laundries and on the days when the church in this country dominated our lives by being obsessed with our pregnant bodies. We cannot allow a sentence of 14 years to...