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National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022): Mairead Farrell: ...to outsource cervical samples. Before that the Tánaiste’s predecessor, former Deputy Enda Kenny, also stood up in the Dáil and he issued a State apology. He issued a State apology for the Church-run Magdalen laundries. No sooner had he issued this apology, than the HSE had to issue its own apology to Praveen Halappanavar, the husband of the late Savita Halappanavar,...
Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022): Mairead Farrell: .... We must be under no illusion that this history has had an impact on the deeply ingrained misogynistic abuse directed towards women. We see it in the way that women and girls were treated in Magdalen laundries; in the way women's healthcare is cast aside; in the way women's bodies, tone, image and behaviour are strictly policed in public discourse; in the way women have been forced to...

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