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Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...and children. That situation persisted for far too long. We are all thinking of the various carceral institutions in which women and children were confined for many decades, for example, the Magdalen institutions, the mother and baby homes and the industrial schools, in which much violence was perpetrated, but this survey highlights that the issue persists even after those institutions...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise a recent publication of which the Taoiseach may be aware, entitled A Dublin Magdalene Laundry - Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Irelandedited by Mark Coen, Katherine O'Donnell and Maeve O'Rourke. This new publication tells the story of Donnybrook Magdalen laundry, which was established in 1837 by the Religious Sisters of Charity. It reveals a significant amount of new...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...xed; last year for breaches of protection orders and safety orders. We still lack the necessary refuge spaces for women. Women have been discriminated against in Irish society for far too long, including by means of incarceration in Magdalen institutions and mother and baby homes. Importantly, other speakers indicated that this is an international struggle. Women’s rights...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Nothing About Us Without Us - Achieving Equal Rights and Equity for Women with Disabilities: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...have touched on how Ireland has had a shameful history of incarceration, of populations who are "disruptive" or seen-as disruptive to the State. We have seen that history with mother and baby homes, Magdalen institutions and so on. However, I am very conscious that there are complex issues around women's choices. Last year, I worked closely with some residents in the Sisters of...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (19 Jan 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...on the many reports we have seen over the years and on the extent of abuses of human rights of women and children they have exposed. There have been reports into abuse in industrial schools and Magdalen laundries. In the report under discussion, there are references to country homes as well as mother and baby homes. We are aware of psychiatric institution confinement. We know that for...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...could be housed all historical records, databases and findings of other commissions into institutional abuse also. Senator Sherlock has strongly advocated siting such an archive at the former Magdalen laundry in Seán McDermott Street. I am very encouraged to hear the Minister engaging with Senators Higgins and McDowell on the amendments and committing to consulting the Attorney...

Seanad: Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...and shameful history of collusion between church and State authorities that has manifested in the oppression of women and children from disadvantaged backgrounds, notably in industrial schools, Magdalen institutions and so forth. As we have seen in recent votes, not only in the blasphemy referendum but in the referenda on marriage equality and repeal of the eight amendment last year, we...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I commend all those involved in the wonderful ceremony last week, Dublin Honours Magdalenes. It was uplifting to see it after such shabby treatment of so many women for so long by the State, other institutions and, in many cases, by individual families. It was good and positive to see such a great welcome for the Magdalenes by Dublin's Lord Mayor, as well as other aspects of civic and...

Seanad: 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 (27 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...chill, for the sake of our daughters and for their generation. Mr. Gerry Edwards spoke movingly at the Together for Yes launch that we have stopped dropping pregnant women and girls at the doors of Magdalen laundries. We now need also to stop dropping our pregnant women and girls at the departure gates of our airports and ports. Those are really prescient and moving words. We should...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (9 Mar 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...willingness to expand the scope of the inquiry to cover not just a sample of county homes and mother and baby homes but the full list. However, we have already had the scandal around the treatment of women in Magdalen institutions and before that, the scandal around the treatment of so many children in industrial schools. We know from some research about the treatment of adults and...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...carried out the investigation of 14 mother and baby homes and four county homes as a sample, given the extensive number of county homes in which women were incarcerated. According to Justice for Magdalenes, there may have been as many as 180 institutions across Ireland which had in their care women who were pregnant and their babies. We need to examine ourselves to see the attitudes that...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)

Ivana Bacik: ...Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015. The Minister's announcement on the commencement of the Act is welcome. The Senator outlined the purpose of the legislation. That the survivors of the Magdalen institutions, in particular, are to be adequately provided for is hugely welcome. As the Senator said, this is a legacy issue. This is the first Government to deal with what has been a...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...to look for that debate but I cannot accept the amendment to ask the Minister of State to come in today. Senator Paul Coghlan welcomed the package agreed at Cabinet on Tuesday for survivors of Magdalen institutions. I agree with him that it is very welcome to see that overdue series of measures being approved at Cabinet. I know many people in this House have been looking for that over...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Catherine McGuinness (19 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...to ensure adequate supervision in those institutions. It is also important to say this culture extended to families and to the private setting. It was families who gave up their daughters into Magdalen institutions and into mother and baby homes, as we know. There is a huge issue about the cause of this and one cannot lay blame either at the door of the church or the State alone. There...

Seanad: 750th Anniversary of First Irish Parliament: Statements (18 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...that institutions of the State would have. Overall it has meant our Republic has not been as strong as it should have been. We are remedying this, and the debates we have had in recent years about the Magdalen institutions and mother and baby homes have been very important. It is also very important that our Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, although this can only truly be...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...issues raised by Senators Whelan, Kelly and others would be addressed before an Oireachtas committee, with a to and fro between witnesses and committee members. Senator Ó Clochartaigh spoke about the Magdalen laundries. I agree with him that delays are regrettable in the process of securing redress for the survivors of the laundries. I know that progress has been made, and the...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Living City initiative in section 31. All these measures will boost confidence and stimulate job creation. Section 77 provides for an exemption from tax for ex gratiapayments made following the Magdalen commission report to survivors of the Magdalen laundries. This is a welcome and important measure, which everyone will support. However, I would like to devote the remainder of my...

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...centuries of persons with mental illness. I was privileged to attend the launch of the book at which he spoke about the scandal which is much greater in scale than the scandal of the industrial schools and the Magdalen institutions but a scandal of that nature, none the less. For very many decades, and particularly in the 20th century after independence, this State incarcerated persons...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ..., it has been a long time coming and I am glad to see it has been published. I hope we will debate it early in the autumn. I call on the Leader for a debate, as other Members have done, on the Magdalen institutions but in particular on ways in which religious orders might be compelled legally to provide contributions to the redress fund. The Taoiseach and others have said rightly that...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...Council has done a great deal of work also on this matter and will be producing a report very shortly on how to generate and provide for a more women-friendly Parliament. I call for a debate on the Magdalen institutions redress scheme in light of the very disturbing news today that the four religious orders involved in running Magdalen institutions apparently will not be contributing to...