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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has alerted Irish embassies to the existence of the restorative justice scheme for the survivors of the Magdalene laundries. [5102/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and Equality if, following her communications with the Minister for Health and her officials' communications with the Health Service Executive, she will unequivocally confirm that survivors of the Magdalene laundries will be provided with a physical card, either a HAA card or a RWRCI card, under the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015, once it is passed into law....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 105. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the mechanism to deal with health care for survivors of the Magdalene Laundries who live overseas, as referred to by her on 24 September 2014. [5103/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 107. To ask the Minister for Health if private general practitioner services will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [5106/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 108. To ask the Minister for Health if any and all prescribed drugs including high tech drugs, medicines, aids and appliances will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014, or if provision of drugs, medicines, aids and appliances will be restricted to the reimbursement list within the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the Minister for Health if any and all chiropody and podiatry services from any qualified chiropodist or podiatrist, including those in private practice, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014 without the need for a general practitioner’s referral. [5108/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Health if complementary therapies, including massage, reflexology, acupuncture, aroma therapy or hydrotherapy, once referred by a general practitioner, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014; if not, if in making this decision she has considered the international medical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 111. To ask the Minister for Health if counselling, including psychological and psychotherapy services, from any professionally accredited counsellor will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries and their immediate relatives under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014, without restriction or limit on the number of sessions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...if comprehensive dental care, including access to private dentists not within the dental treatment services scheme available to medical card holders, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [5111/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Health if, where necessary services are not available within the public health service, audiology services from private practitioners will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene Laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [5112/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for Health if dedicated liaison officers, such as those available to HAA cardholders to help obtain optimum home nursing and home support services, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [5113/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 115. To ask the Minister for Health if enhanced ophthalmic services provided to HAA cardholders, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014, or if these survivor will be restricted to those ophthalmic services already available to medical card holders. [5114/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 116. To ask the Minister for Health if private physiotherapy services will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [5115/15]

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has helpfully reminded us that over 10,000 women spent time in Magdalen laundries since the founding of the State. Approximately half of them served more than three years, not always but often following referral by State agencies – from industrial and reform schools, health and social services, county homes and psychiatric hospitals to the criminal justice system,...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for the commission, not least because it will surely and by design exclude from its remit and consideration literally thousands of victims of serious human rights violations. There is no guarantee here for the Magdalen women, previously and wrongly deprived of the right to a full commission of investigation into their particular institutional experiences. There is no guarantee for the...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister prefaced her description of the legislation by providing an account of how, in her eyes, the issue of the Magdalen laundries has been dealt with by the State and how it and the Government treated the victims and survivors. I take this opportunity to acknowledge that those survivors enjoyed a level of public recognition in respect of the experiences that they underwent, many of...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Ireland's "cold and heartless past" and his claim to have dealt with past injustices inflicted by the State on the watch of his party and others do not tally with the reality. He mentioned the women of the Magdalen laundries. The truth is that the McAleese initiative and report was a whitewash. The United Nations has recognised that. The truth is that the penny-pinching ex gratiascheme...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (19 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Magdalen laundry survivors' ex gratia scheme applications from within the UK have to go through the Irish Women Survivors Support Network or if they can be made directly to her Department. [44368/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (19 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way Magdalen laundry survivors' ex gratia scheme applications from within the UK are processed; and if her Department communicates with the survivors directly or through the Irish Women Survivors Support Network. [44370/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (19 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the parameters that have been set down for the Irish Women Survivors Support Network with regard to the operation of the Magdalen laundry survivors ex gratia scheme, particularly in relation to establishing duration of stay. [44371/14]