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Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...orders not coming to the table and not conceding they have a bill to pay. I recently had a conversation with a man who worked as a taxi driver many years ago. He used to bring laundry to the Magdalen laundries and then bring it back to hotels and government premises. He also brought women and babies. The taxi drivers just did it and never really thought about what was happening at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...structures. No one is overseeing the protection of religious sites or religious institutions. Will the proposed Bill cover modern sites such as residential institutions, industrial schools and Magdalen laundries, particularly as such places certainly reach the threshold of interest? There may be structures that are of archaeological merit but also within them are graves, both marked and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...and Youth, which recently dealt with mother and baby homes, institutional burials, and birth information and tracing. The latter is not as relevant to this. We had discussions about the Magdalen laundries and industrial schools. The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth attended the public hearing on the planning application for the Bessborough site because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: .... I am very sensitive to the need for care and consideration on anything around to this. I am confused about how this might relate to developing the site of a former industrial school or a former Magdalen laundry. We have one former Magdalen laundry in the north inner city that is in the care of Dublin City Council. There has been no move to either preserve or demolish the site, or do...