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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Seán Crowe: We are meeting today with representatives from the Neurological Alliance of Ireland to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on neurological services, care and capacity. I welcome Ms Magdalen Rogers, the alliance's executive director, and Professor Orla Hardiman, national clinical lead for neurology and professor of neurology at Trinity College Dublin. All witnesses are reminded of the...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Crowe: ...were set aside by the State and the church. It will come as some shock and is probably hard for many people to believe that, in this period in the 1980s, the State and the Catholic Church were imprisoning women in Magdalen laundries. The eighth amendment was conceived, debated and inserted into the Constitution in this toxic and repressive moment of our history. I commend all the...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jun 2014)

Seán Crowe: ..., according to many of the victims. The State apologised to a certain section, but many groups were left out. From the first investigations and State apologies which cruelly left out the likes of the Magdalen laundries to the imperfect and selective McAleese inquiry which left out the likes of Bethany Home and others, we have seen the State continue to fail the tragic victims and...

Open Adoption Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...in which children born outside marriage were stigmatised with the label of so-called illegitimacy. We have moved on from the time when women were imprisoned and enslaved in institutions such as Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes. Mothers had their infants taken away for adoption. We all accept in this House that these women were treated as less than second-class citizens. I...

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2014)

Seán Crowe: Governments said the same about the Magdalen laundries.

Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)

Seán Crowe: ...Government should live up to its responsibility and add Bethany Home to the residential institutions redress scheme. We were told for years that there was no information linking the State to the Magdalen laundries, but it was found somehow. Perhaps the Minister of State could tell us where it was found. I respectfully suggest that the overlooked or ignored information linking Bethany...

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2013)

Seán Crowe: ...discussing a brutality inflicted on women because of the moral stance taken by society, mainly by men. In recent months, Deputies have spoken of their righteous outrage at what occurred in the Magdalen laundries. They have expressed their sympathies and regrets about what was done to the women imprisoned there. Tonight presents an opportunity to discuss the hurt and pain forced on the...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

Seán Crowe: ...debate as the women who suffered so much in the past. Hopefully, the apology will begin to repair some of the damage that was done to these people's lives. I commend the courage and bravery of the Magdalen women, who have long campaigned for an unreserved apology from the State. Their dedication and hard work finally paid off when the Taoiseach did the right thing, not only for the...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...of bleach and words such as cruelty, sadness, terror, poverty, unhappiness, regret, hunger, brutality, abuse, despair, beatings, imprisonment and silence. It is now three years since Justice for Magdalenes circulated an apology and redress scheme for survivors. It is 22 months since the Irish Human Rights Commission stated that a statutory inquiry into alleged abuses and provision of...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...of bleach and words such as cruelty, sadness, terror, poverty, unhappiness, regret, hunger, brutality, abuse, despair, beatings, imprisonment and silence. It is now three years since Justice for Magdalenes circulated an apology and redress scheme for survivors. It is 22 months since the Irish Human Rights Commission stated that a statutory inquiry into alleged abuses and provision of...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...many of the survivors experienced. I was disappointed that a number of amendments were ruled out of order because they were deemed to place a cost on the Exchequer, namely, those relating to the Magdalene Laundries and Bethany Home. Some of the former residents suggested a housing option, which was also ruled out of order. The Minister felt the eligibility clause could not be opened....

Proposed Legislation (19 Jan 2012)

Seán Crowe: When will the heads of the Bill be published? On the Magdalene-----

Residential Institutions Redress (Amendment) Bill, 2011: Second Stage (14 Jul 2011)

Seán Crowe: ...boom years. For example, the Sisters of Mercy made €165 million in land sales and the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity earned €61.8 million from the lands surrounding the mass grave of the Magdalene victims discovered in 1993. The contrast between these sums and the funds made available to the laundry survivors could not be starker. They received no pay for their years of forced...

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (13 Jul 2011)

Seán Crowe: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views, in the context of his decision to appoint Senator Martin McAleese to review interactions between the State and Roman Catholic Magdalene Laundry institutions, but not a directly comparable institution with a Protestant evangelical ethos (details supplied) that this is a form of discrimination against residents in the home...