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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...written by some clever lawyer, rather than the Deputies here. We all use lawyers to help us with the drafting of amendments. Are these drafters the successors of the people who locked women in Magdalen laundries and put their children in orphanages and industrial schools? It took a very long time before this House even addressed those issues. Are we really using that same language...

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: ...pointing out. When Deputy Frances Fitzgerald and myself were the only female members of the Cabinet, alongside Máire Whelan as Attorney General, we worked to ensure that women and girls who had been affected by the Magdalen laundries had a process whereby they did not have to go to court and could get redress. It was not perfect but it provided a solution, particularly for women...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: There was a welcome recent announcement by the Department of Justice and Equality on the extension of the scheme for women who worked in Magdalen laundries to those who were excluded from the first scheme. I was disappointed to discover that women are being asked to provide evidence of having worked. I am sure the Tánaiste knows that many of the laundries do not have records. The...

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the legislation will stall further as birth parents die and adopted people age, so we will "age out" of this issue. From all the revelations of recent decades in respect of mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries and other institutions, including adoption societies, we know there is a great deal of hidden information concerning adopted people's birth parents and families that...

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)

Joan Burton: .... Some in the media have allowed themselves to be carried away and indicated that this will turn Ireland upside down. This is the country which sent tens of thousands of young women and girls to England, either when they were pregnant or as soon as they had left the Magdalen laundries or other institutions. By the way, priests met them off the boat, as did people from various religious...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: ...of overseas adoptions, over 50,000 adoption orders were signed for babies who were adoptable. There were a lot more fostering arrangements and yet nobody knew about any of it. Of the women in the Magdalen laundries, nobody knew anything at all other than in recent times when we heard about the pain and suffering. I am not saying the eighth amendment caused that but the eighth amendment...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: ...should have been a more court-based adversarial process. I personally knew many affected by the different inquiries into children who were held in institutions, in some cases as adult women in Magdalen institutions for the greater parts of their lives. While some are robust in going through procedures and telling their stories, for others, who are both fragile and damaged, it is an...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Joan Burton: ...has been cast over this part of Irish history. The last Government, of which I was honoured to be a member, sought to shine a light into dark corners of other aspects of Irish history to do with the Magdalen laundries and people in institutions. The history of adoption is intimately linked with all of this, both for adopted children and their birth parents. The time has come for the...

Establishment of a Statutory Commission of Investigation into a Foster Home in the South East: Statements (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Burton: ...a considerable time. This has been one of the motifs of the last five years of this Oireachtas, namely, all the different stories of the hidden Ireland that have come to view, from the women who were in Magdalen laundries to the children who were in institutions and to those children who died in institutions and the information Members heard about Tuam. Members are aware that from the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: ...Benefit - Invalidity Pension - OI Disablement (Workmen's com, medical care) - Carer's Allowance - Carer's Benefit - Domiciliary Care Allowance - Guardian's Payment (non-con) - Guardian's Payment (Contributory) - Magdalen Commission Scheme In order to be eligible for the bonus, recipients of Jobseeker's Allowance, Supplementary Welfare Allowance and Direct Provision Allowance must be in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: ...by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is also disregarded for social welfare means test purposes In addition, ex gratia payments made to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries or through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme are also disregarded. All other compensation or court awards which are not provided for in social welfare legislation are assessed...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Magdalen Laundries (26 Feb 2015)

Joan Burton: ...for the purposes of the means test applying to social assistance payments and also the supplementary welfare and rent allowance schemes and include those women who fall within the terms of the Magdalen Commission Report. I am very anxious to assist these women as much as possible. Accordingly, if the Deputy is aware of any particular case with issues in this regard it would be helpful...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: ...is to ensure that what was hidden and covered up will be exposed and brought into the light. Two years ago, the Government acted decisively to address the issue of State involvement in the Magdalen laundries, rightly apologising on behalf of the State and setting up a redress fund. I said at the time that the laundries were one of the last - not the last - unresolved issues of the...

Order of Business (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: ...'s concerns about the survivors of symphysiotomy to the Minister. Everybody in the House shares these concerns and the Minister and his officials are working on the issue. I pay tribute to the Magdalen women for their bravery and dignity. Mr. Justice Quirke's report is being studied and examined in detail by the women concerned and their supporters and advisers. The report sets out a...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: In 2010, speaking from the Opposition benches, I said the terrible ordeal of the women committed to the Magdalen laundries was one of the last unresolved issues of the hidden Ireland. I am glad to say the Government is now acting decisively to resolve the issue and that at long last what was hidden and covered up has been exposed and brought into the light. It has been revealed that the...

Residential Institutions. (21 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: The issue of women who were committed to Magdalene laundries is one of the last unresolved issues of the hidden Ireland of institutions, religious orders and the State so eloquently set out in the Ryan report and a whole series of articles, books, films, memoirs and television programmes. Just before Christmas last year, the Justice for Magdalene group met senior officials in the Department...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: There was a Magdalene laundry attached to the school I attended. I remember it and other people in this House remember it, but most people under the age of 40 do not even know that these prison-like places existed. Christmas is coming and there are poor old women in distressed circumstances-----

(8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: ...or other institutions in which children were placed and were not covered by the commission Act or the redress Act. It must be borne in mind that covers many young, under age women who were in Magdalene homes; and fourth, ensure that the records of the commission and the bodies associated with it are preserved as important state records for personal, archival and historical research...