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Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (23 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...examination process, the Irish Human Rights Commission submitted a report to the UN Committee against Torture. Reports were also submitted to the Committee by Amnesty International, Justice for the Magdalens, SPIRASI, Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Irish Penal Reform Trust and the International Disability...

Written Answers — Departmental Committees: Departmental Committees (23 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: As I have already indicated, the Government decided on a number of actions following its meeting last week which considered the circumstances of the women and girls who resided in the Magdalen Laundries. The Government believes it is essential to fully establish the true facts and circumstances relating to the Laundries as a first step. Along with my colleague, the Minister for State for...

Magdalene Laundries (23 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Its concluding observations cover a wide range of areas that impact on the remit of several Departments. In respect of the Magdalene laundries, the committee recommended that the "State should institute prompt, independent, and thorough investigations into all allegations of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or...

Magdalene Laundries (23 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...regard it as absolutely important and crucial that any information or documentation available to the Government that gives an insight into the level of departmental involvement or contact with the Magdalene laundries be brought together and included in a coherent and detailed narrative. All relevant Departments which retain such information will be represented on the interdepartmental...

Magdalene Laundries (23 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...the Government of which I am a member is putting in place which it sees as part of a process. Consultations with the religious congregations and representatives of those who lived in the Magdalene laundries will be held shortly. I am committed to ensuring the investigation of the events surrounding the residents of the Magdalene laundries and people who worked therein and the extent to...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (22 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy will be aware that the Government decided on a number of actions following its meeting last week which considered the circumstances of the women and girls who resided in the Magdalen Laundries. The Government believes it is essential to fully establish the true facts and circumstances relating to the Laundries as a first step. Along with my colleague, the Minister for State for...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (16 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...as the prevention of domestic violence and human trafficking. Its concluding observations cover a wide range of areas from prison conditions to the total prohibition of corporal punishment, the Magdalen Laundries, the follow up of the Ryan Report and the processing of applications for refugee status, all of which impact on the remit of several Government Departments. Specifically, in...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: As the Deputy is aware, it is the role of the Office of the Attorney General to provide legal advice to the Government. In preparing the memorandum for the Government on the matter of the Magdalen institutions, my Department consulted with the Attorney General.

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...years of age who had been charged with criminal offences may be committed to custody to a remand institution (other than a prison) whose use for this purpose has been approved by the Minister. One Magdalen Institution was approved as a remand centre for young women who were aged between 16 and 21 years of age. That was St Mary Magdalen's Asylum, Lower Sean McDermott Street, Dublin 1. ...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...may be committed to custody to a remand institution, other than a prison, whose use for this purpose has been approved by the Minister. This was provided for in the Criminal Justice Act, 1960. One Magdalen institution was approved as a remand centre for young women who were aged between 16 and 21 years of age. That was St Mary Magdalen's Asylum, Lower Sean McDermott Street, Dublin 1....

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...Justice Act. While I have no information at this time of a provision whereby women giving birth to a second child outside marriage at a mother and baby home could be transferred directly to a Magdalen institution, I believe however that it is essential to fully establish the true facts and circumstances relating to these institutions. To this end, the Deputy will be aware that the...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 439 and 440 together. The Department of Justice and Equality did not pay any general capitation grants to Magdalen laundries for the confinement of problem girls. An arrangement was made with one institution, St Mary Magdalen's Asylum, Lower Sean McDermott Street, Dublin 1., pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act 1960 for its use as a remand centre for young...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: Research has indicated that a small proportion of entrants to Magdalen institutions came through the State's criminal justice system. My Department does not hold records that would identify the number of women who were sent to Magdalen institutions since the foundation of the State. However, my Department and the National Archives do have some limited records relating to payments made in...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: The information available to me to date suggests that the vast majority of women who entered Magdalen institutions were not referred by the State but by family, others or entered on their own initiative. There were a number of women found to have committed criminal offences referred to a variety of institutions including Magdalen institutions as a condition of an order under the Probation of...

Written Answers — UN Committee Against Torture: UN Committee Against Torture (15 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...as the prevention of domestic violence and human trafficking. Its concluding observations cover a wide range of areas from prison conditions to the total prohibition of corporal punishment, the Magdalen Laundries, the follow up to the Ryan Report and the processing of applications for refugee status, all of which impact on the remit of several Government Departments. In conjunction with...

Written Answers — UN Committee Against Torture: UN Committee Against Torture (15 Jun 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...as the prevention of domestic violence and human trafficking. Its concluding observations cover a wide range of areas from prison conditions to the total prohibition of corporal punishment, the Magdalen Laundries, the follow up of the Ryan Report and the processing of applications for refugee status, all of which impact on the remit of several Government Departments. Specifically, in...

Magdalene Laundries (18 May 2011)

Alan Shatter: ...the opportunity to speak to the House on this important issue. As many Members will know, I have long believed the issues raised by, or on behalf of, those women and girls who were resident in the Magdalene laundries must be fully investigated. I have great sympathy for the women concerned and want to help in bringing closure to this issue for the individuals concerned. Senior officials...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (3 May 2011)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 450 and 480 together. I can confirm that my Department has received proposals for a reparations scheme from the Justice for Magdalenes Group which are currently being considered. Otherwise, the position remains unchanged since my reply to Questions Nos. 77 to 79, inclusive, of 24 March 2011. I believe that a comprehensive examination of the facts is now...

Written Answers — Report on Magdalene Laundries: Report on Magdalene Laundries (24 Mar 2011)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 77 to 79, inclusive, together. On 9 November, 2010 the Human Rights Commission published their assessment of the request by the Justice for Magdalenes (JFM) group to carry out an enquiry under Section 9 of the Human Rights Commission Act, 2000 into the treatment of women and girls who resided in Magdalen Laundries. The Human Rights Commission decided not to...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: ...abuse. I understand that the Departments of Education and Science, and Justice, Equality and Law Reform have both accepted that the State was directly involved in women being sent to the Magdalene laundries where, as we know, many were very cruelly treated. Based on the fact that this is now accepted - I am aware it is a matter under consideration - does the Government intend to...