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Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: .... We and the State have made mistakes, as I have already highlighted - I quoted the Kerry babies case - and we all loathe the horrible events that have taken place in institutions of the State, such as the Magdalen laundries, and we know the mistakes we have made in the past. At the same time, Ireland is a special place and the church in Ireland has done great things. We can be critical...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and inserted into the Constitution. I do not think there is a woman of my age in Ireland who cannot still feel how that atmosphere felt. After all, this was the Ireland of the mother and baby homes and the Magdalen laundries. It was an Ireland where women were to be subjugated and kept quiet inside the home to accept their fate. This obsessive control of women did not happen by...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...and intolerant. Women were written out of history. Their status in this State was confirmed in the 1937 Constitution, which provided that the place of women is "in the home". Women who strayed beyond the so-called norms were sent to Magdalen laundries or mother and baby homes, where they endured unbelievable hardship and were denied everything by a State that condemned...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: ...doing so, we come face to face with our history - a history that continues to unfold and continues to hold up a mirror in which we sometimes do not like what we see, whether it is the damp cold of the Magdalen laundries creeping into our bones, or the sundered silence of mother and baby homes being broken, or the glimpses of what was an all too acceptable culture exposed by the Kerry...