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- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is not difficult to say that. The Minister, Deputy Shatter, when in opposition, was proven to be correct because the report points out the involvement of the State in the placing of 25% of those women, through one route or another, in Magdalen laundries. I do believe the stories of the women. I do believe that this is the truth about what happened to them, about their lives and their...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am certainly not going to rise to the bait of political opportunism.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald, above all people, and the party she represents-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----have a lot to answer for in terms of cruelty-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----in terms of truth and in terms of reconciliation. I am not going there.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have said, in answer to the leader of the Fianna Fáil Party-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I assure Deputy Ferris that I see him.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: We have had some discussions about his activities in the past day or two.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: In answer to Deputies McDonald and Martin, I have said that the Government made a decision to set up a committee and have a report produced. Former Senator McAleese has produced that. It is the first time that the truth of the scale of what happened in the Magdalen laundries, told by the women who were there, has actually been made public. I genuinely believe-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that it is the responsibility of the Government not to react the day after a 1,000 page report is produced-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but to have the evidence and the considered opinions of the Government and the Oireachtas brought into the House and then to decide what is the best thing to do. Deputy McDonald does not agree with that because she always wants to have her political opportunistic jibe. I am not interested in that.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: What I am interested in is repeating that, on behalf of this State, I am absolutely sorry for all that happened in the Magdalen laundries. Deputy McDonald might think that is not sufficient but if people had said they were sorry for actions on many occasions in the past-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----things might have been very different in this country. They might have been very different.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Despite what Deputy McDonald thinks, this Government will take the McAleese report, consider it sensitively and comprehensively and then we will decide what is the best thing to do in order to look after the needs and the requirements of the survivors of the Magdalen laundries.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is the story of young women and girls in Magdalen laundries during a very long and sad period in this State's history. Unlike all other Governments-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----this Government will now deal with it. We put in place a process for the production of the truth and the stories of those women, as told to the McAleese committee, are true. They are believed and it is our duty to act on those in the most appropriate, responsible and fitting fashion and that is what we will do.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not take Deputy McGrath's comments seriously.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Of course Deputy is McGrath is elected by the people the same as everyone else and he is entitled to be here as a democratically elected representative. This does not mean he can attack people like Michael O'Brien, an abused victim who made his case clearly to the nation. The Deputy should reflect on his words in that regard.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Far from hiding and denying the truth, the Government has exposed the truth and has now set about a process of dealing with that truth. I expect the Deputy will agree that the Government commissioned the report and received and published it yesterday. It is 1,000 pages long. I think the Deputy said it was 1,400 pages long. We are at the start of a process. If Deputy McGrath wants to...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The report is 1,000 pages long and not 1,400. When Deputy McGrath speaks of hope, I trust he acknowledges that the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, with the authority of the Government, commissioned the report. It was published yesterday.