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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...GP services, medications, home nursing and home helps, dental, ophthalmic and aural services, counselling, chiropody or podiatry, and physiotherapy. This is the same package of supports which has been provided to survivors of the Magdalen laundries under the Magdalen laundry scheme and is being provided to former residents of mother and baby and county home institutions under the mother...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (21 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...supports, Government has approved the provision of an enhanced package of health supports and services to survivors in Ireland, similar to the supports previously provided to survivors of the Magdalen Laundries and which are to be provided to former residents of Mother and Baby Homes. This is commonly referred to as an “enhanced medical card”. Survivors living abroad will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mother and Baby Homes (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: ...supports, Government has approved the provision of an enhanced package of health supports and services to survivors in Ireland, similar to the supports previously provided to survivors of the Magdalen Laundries and which are to be provided to former residents of Mother and Baby Homes. This is commonly referred to as an “enhanced medical card”. Survivors living abroad will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (3 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: ...to planning. This included a proposal to develop a specific memorial integrated with the Garden of Remembrance. Since the publication of the Ryan Report in 2009, separate investigations into the Magdalen Laundries and the Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions have taken place, and it is clear that there were referral pathways between the various institutions and that some...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (16 May 2023)

Norma Foley: ..., the development of which has been approved by Government, will stand as a national memorial to all those who were resident in relevant institutions, including industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalen Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and related institutions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (2 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: ...last Government approved proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance which will stand as a National Memorial to honour all those who were resident in industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalen Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and related institutions. As well as a museum and exhibition space and a place for reflection and remembrance, the National Centre will include...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: ...available for study. The plays Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan and Tribes by Nina Raine and the novel The Lauras by Sara Taylor explore the experiences of marginalised groups, namely women in the Magdalene laundries, the deaf community and transgender teenagers. The classic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley offers significant scope to explore the concept of othering in society and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Monuments (22 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: ...would have an adverse impact on the setting, character and function of the Garden of Remembrance. In view of the architecture of containment and the pathways between Industrial/Reformatory schools, Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes, it is worth considering that memorialisation measures should encompass a whole of society approach. I would welcome your views and your...