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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Institutions (3 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...group recommended. It would have applied financial payments to 19,000 survivors. We are applying financial payments to 34,000 survivors. The rates are similar to those used in the Magdalen redress scheme, using the criteria of years spent in an institution. As the Deputy correctly said, for short periods of less than three months' the rate is €5,000 and for those who were...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (8 Mar 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Charles Flanagan: The Government decision in relation to the terms of the Magdalen ex-gratia Scheme provides that it commences with effect from 1 August, 2013.  By way of general information, to date 687 women have received lump sum payments under the Scheme which provides for lump sum payments varying from €11,500 to €100,000 depending on the length of stay in the institution...

Order of Business (27 Nov 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of legislation to allow for medical services and medical cards for the Magdalen laundries survivors. He referred me to the Minister for Justice and Equality who has written to me today. He has confirmed that the legislation will be in place by early 2014. However, I am concerned that the medical cover will only apply to women who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Seán Crowe: We are meeting today with representatives from the Neurological Alliance of Ireland to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on neurological services, care and capacity. I welcome Ms Magdalen Rogers, the alliance's executive director, and Professor Orla Hardiman, national clinical lead for neurology and professor of neurology at Trinity College Dublin. All witnesses are reminded of the...

Adjournment Debate Matters (17 Dec 2009)

Jack Wall: ...Member in each case: (1) Deputy John O'Mahony - the delay in the payment of the 2009 REP scheme 4 to farmers; (2) Deputy Alan Shatter - the need for a redress scheme in respect of residents of the Magdalene laundries; (3) Deputy James Bannon - the provision of services at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath; (4) Deputies Seymour Crawford, Damien English and Shane...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (8 Dec 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Coughlan: ...introduced in 2002 as an exceptional measure to address a very particular circumstance and was never intended to be a panacea for every injustice committed on children. The issue of including the Magdalen Laundries in the scheme was raised during the passage of the Residential Institutions Redress Bill and the request to include the laundries generally was not acceded to. However, in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Apr 2018) See 2 other results from this answer

Charles Flanagan: I am committed to honouring the commitments made to the Magdalen women. To date, 691 applicants have received redress amounting to €25.9 m in lump sums under the Ex Gratia Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme, along with other enhanced Health and Social Protection supports. I have carefully considered the Ombudsman’s report of November 2017 on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2011) See 1 other result from this debate

David Norris: ...was about Bethany Home and the fact that the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin should be included in the redress scheme. This was met with a rather strange silence. The other issue was about Magdalene laundries. I would like to pursue these issues, because there have been developments. First, on behalf of the Bethany Home survivors, Mr. Leinster has stated that he is putting a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My experiences come from knowing and being with the ladies from the Magdalen laundries. Common among them is the sense of hurt, physical, mental and emotional, which they experienced. In the case of the Magdalen laundry ladies, the main concern is their ages and the timeframe in terms of progressing their issues in a speedy way. I understand the need for balance between indepth study and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Gary Gannon: ...took place in the Chamber yesterday, today might be a good day to highlight promises in previous State apologies that are as yet unfulfilled. I refer in particular to the apology to survivors of Magdalen laundries in 2013 and the recommendations from Mr. Justice Quirke's commission that have yet to be implemented. Previously, I raised recommendation 6 relating to memorialisation, but...

Seanad: Order of Business: Motion. - Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (7 Oct 2003)

Today, in the short time I had to listen to the radio, I heard a story about the last woman to work in a Magdalene laundry in Dublin. She was buried in Glasnevin cemetery in August after her death at the age of 51 years. She was buried under the name Mary but that was not her name. When a woman who knew her got in touch with Glasnevin cemetery to find out where she was buried in order that...

Adjournment Debate Matters (16 Dec 2009)

Michael Kennedy: ...of Justice, Equality and Law Reform that women and young girls were routinely committed by order of the courts and other mechanisms to institutions and homes run by religious orders, known as Magdalene laundries; and the need for the Minister to make a statement and outline the position in respect of files and records held by Departments, whether these files will be released, and what the...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: The provision of direct provision centres has been a shameful episode in the history of the nation. A comparison has been made with the Magdalen laundries of former days and it is fair to say the centres are the Magdalen laundries of our time. I do not buy the Minister of State's argument that the fact that people are spending less time in direct provision accommodation is entirely down to...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and when does the Tánaiste envisage a referendum being put to the people on that matter? I asked last week about a debate in the Dáil on the Quirke report and the redress scheme for survivors of the Magdalen laundries. I appreciate that Mr. Justice Quirke has brought his report forward but I think it merits time for discussion in this House, not least because the UN Committee...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Nov 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Government makes numerous commitments to older people, empowering women, protecting children and young people and equality and inclusiveness. It appears that when it comes to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries all of these worthy commitments go out the window. Following a comprehensive investigation into the administration of the Magdalen restorative justice scheme, the Ombudsman...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Magdalen Laundries (29 Nov 2016) See 2 other results from this answer

Leo Varadkar: The Department of Social Protection processes an ex-gratia payment/administrative scheme, under the recommendations of the Magdalen Commission Report of Mr Justice John Quirke, on behalf of the Department of Justice and Equality. This scheme provides for payments equalling the maximum rate of State pension (contributory), currently set at €233.30 per week, to eligible customers aged...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (11 Jun 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 746 and 747 together. The Government decision of 19 February relates to Magdalen Laundries which were examined by the Inter-Departmental Committee set up to establish the facts of State involvement. The House of Mercy in Summerhill, County Wexford was one of a number of residential centres run by the Sisters of Mercy, where, generally at the request of...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013) See 8 other results from this debate

Niall Collins: ...are morally obliged to future generations, and to past ones, to remember the successes and tragic mistakes that have shaped this country. That book should never be closed, and I am glad the women of the Magdalen laundries will ensure that their voices are heard and not condemned to the dark silence. Dr. Martin McAleese's report and the testimony of the brave women who spoke out are a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: National Archives (21 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Archives. This obligation will extend to the Mc Aleese archive. In March 2022 Government approved high-level proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry in Sean McDermott Street, which will stand as a site of conscience, and will be a national memorial to honour all those who were resident in Industrial Schools, Magdalen...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Magdalen Bill published before Christmas will be taken here in the next few weeks. It has been very well accepted and supported by the vast majority of the women who went through the Magdalen laundries. As I said earlier, the Government is fully committed to implementing all Mr. Justice Quirke's recommendations. The relief and acceptance on the part of those women of the State's...