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Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...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)...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...siblings are deceased. We know, for example, of the extraordinarily high mortality rates in the Bessborough home. It is extremely important that people are able to find that. The Justice for Magdalenes events happen every year in Dublin, Galway and different places and a number of us go to them. Each year, they go to the graves of those who lived in the Magdalen laundries and one of...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...to state that there is a wide breadth of organisations with an interest in this issue, including groups such as the Tuam mother and baby home survivors, Aontas, the Adoption Rights Alliance, Justice for Magdalenes, the Irish First Mothers group and many others. There is a wide breadth of groups with different experiences and including adoptees, survivors and those who have worked in...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: .... Not giving that basic right will undermine the operation of future commissions and co-operation by future witnesses. We need a timeline. We all heard the apology made to the victims of the Magdalen laundries, which feels as if it was millions of years ago. We have not had justice. It has been a scrabble for individuals to try to have peace in their own families and lives. We need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Why the Arts Matter: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...although I know we need direct central funding as well as that kind of levy. The benefit is also seen in science, creative thinking, relationships and difficult conversations, such as in the Magdalen laundries, where many tough issues did not come through until they were faced and confronted through the arts. It also makes for better politics. The international power and considerable...

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and Tracing) Bill 2016, but it is not the answer. It is a complementary and separate struggle from the question of identity. Great cruelties are still being inflicted by issues such as the Magdalen laundries, industrial schools and forced adoptions. In many cases, they are not crimes of the past because people are still being denied records and information. The decisions are still...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and for fixing our broken adoption system, supports and rights for those with a disability, support for addressing the legacies of inequality in our pension system and experienced by those in the Magdalen laundries. This is collective work in which I hope all of us will be able to engage to ensure the women of Ireland are supported fully and given all of the best options with all of the...

Seanad: Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture: Statements (24 Jan 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and tell us about social concerns. Art can be challenging and it is appropriate that we embrace that challenge and welcome what artists are telling us. A key moment for me was the play about the Magdalen laundries that was first performed in Galway as a challenge to society. That spirit of art as challenging is something we need to embrace. Europe needs to ensure that cultural rights...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and for women in Ireland. I first marched for repeal in 1992 as a teenager. I was moved and shocked by the X case as what was happening to another teenager in Ireland. I was also moved by the Magdalen laundries stories. At the time, friends of mine in the Galway Youth Theatre were taking part in the first performances of Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsedwhere we learned about other ways...

Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and record we care to read and in every place in the ground we have been asked to look. If we do not know that abuse or neglect took place, for what did the Taoiseach apologise to the survivors of Magdalen laundries? We know there has been abuse and neglect. The task of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is to determine the extent, depth and various awful...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...saying there have been no findings to date regarding abuse or neglect. Indeed, the Tánaiste, Deputy Francis Fitzgerald, stated to the UN that there had been no findings in respect of the Magdalen laundries when we are finding the bodies of children in the ground and we see the evidence, stories and testimony of people who endlessly and bravely come forward to talk about the...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...that architecture, we will have to go deep and look at all its strands and forms, and we will need to look at the issue of collusion. We will need to ask, as one person at a recent Flowers for Magdalenes event did, why the Garda was called when a woman ran away if she broke no law. Why were the gardaí taking people back into these institutions? Why were passports being issued for...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...this country needs to be paying the compensation it should be paying into the funds, which they have neglected. They also need to recognise the moneys made on the backs of those who worked in the Magdalen laundries, for example. In that same week we had a story that did not get as much coverage. Marie Collins, an Irish survivor of abuse, resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the...