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Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...after the enactment of the legislation there will be options for the provision of qualified personal advocates to relevant participants. As I mentioned, we know particular ladies who went into the Magdalen laundries with mental health issues or, because of being there, developed mental health issues during their time there. I have met some of the ladies who were in the laundry on Sean...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Magdalen Laundries (24 Sep 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...laundries. The burden of proof appears to be on the women, many of whom are in ill health and of advancing years. It is not the fault of the women that the records are incomplete. Justice for Magdalenes raised the dangers of exclusive reliance on the religious orders' records and Mr. Justice Quirke was told that the Department had six different ways of establishing length of stay. Will...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (15 Mar 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...date in this Dáil, I have come across a number of forgotten groups in society. These include the post-polio survivors, survivors of thalidomide and women who lived - or, rather, existed - in the Magdalen laundries. This is another group that has been forgotten by society. I acknowledge the work of Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin in bringing this matter to the Chamber, where it deserves...

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...that this can happen at some future date. In recent days UNCAT has indicated that the State should "take additional steps to ensure that victims obtain redress as needed, including in the case of the Magdalene Laundries". I take this opportunity to mention the case of Rita. The latter is not her real name. There is absolutely no doubt about the date on which Rita entered the laundry;...

Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...the whole history of this matter has been one of delay after delay over many years. It is even a number of years now since the then Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, apologised to the ladies of the Magdalen laundries, who still face a number of outstanding issues. This is all related: the Magdalen laundries, the mother and baby homes and the industrial schools. It is the treatment of...

Resignation of Taoiseach (13 Jun 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...Ní féidir gan aitheantas a thabhairt do chumas Gaeilge an Taoisigh agus an chaoi a mbain sé úsáid as an nGaeilge. One of the most moving moments here was the apology to the ladies of the Magdalen laundries. Of course it was an apology that should never have been made, but yet the Taoiseach made it and he did it in a way that they found very satisfactory. I...

International Day of Democracy: Statements (15 Sep 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...who are subjected to forced medication, forced ECT and stigmatised. We have denied those people the right to be treated as equal citizens and we continue to deny justice to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. They are just two examples of the blight in our democracy. I look back at history and the types of government we have had, at monarchy and the divine right of kings,...

Topical Issues: Magdalen Laundries (25 Jun 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...that. There are outstanding issues regarding An Grianán and the memorial, on which there is a wide diversity of views. I met somebody recently who had been in an industrial school rather than a Magdalen laundry, and his view was there should be a day of remembrance for everybody who suffered abuse in this way. From the Minister of State's reply, there will be outstanding issues...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I wish to discuss the issue of children. We have had appalling examples of mistreatment of children in the past. We had the Magdalen laundries, the industrial schools and mother and baby homes. We have seen abuse in families, by members of the clergy and in swimming circles. The children involved were deprived of innocence, laughter and fun, all of which should be associated with...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...and those who with symphysiotomy have medical cards, which is correct. Those who were given contaminated blood products have the HSAA card. Mr. Justice Quirke recommended that the ladies from the Magdalen laundries would have a health care package similar to the HSAA card but nothing seems to be happening in that regard and I have tabled questions to the Ministers for Justice and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ..., there were some dark moments that we created and sustained after independence. I specifically refer to the darkness of institutionalisation, mother and baby homes, the industrial schools and Magdalen laundries. I will not get into the commission on mother and baby homes, except to say those who are formally recognised to have been in the homes were invited, with their representatives,...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Second Stage (21 Jan 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...of greed, selfishness and corruption at the heart of what we are discussing tonight and tomorrow night. In the Dáil recently we have examined abuses including the residential institutions, the Magdalen laundries and the ladies who suffered the ordeal of symphysiotomy. One thinks one has reached the end of it, that there could not be any more horror stories. Then we come to this...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...calling for, given the close association between them and the mother and baby homes? We often ask whether we ever learn from our history and I am not sure that we do because we are creating a Magdalen laundries-industrial school scandal for the future through the direct provision system and the deplorable conditions in which some foreign national children live. Has the Minister a...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...number for Government appointees. I do not want to take from some of the very excellent appointments that have been made, for example former Senator Martin Mansergh with regard to the Justice for Magdalenes case. The Minister stated the Bar Council and the Law Society have been rather silent on the benefits and opportunities which the Bill would extend to their members and instead have...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...so many people, individuals and groups in our political lives, and there will always be some who will make a significant impact on us. For me, some of those people are the women I met from the Magdalen laundries and from the Association of Mixed Race Irish . I met the latter group several times over the years and with them I met the then Minister, Senator James Reilly. For me, it was...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...of human rights that would reflect the stories of all those who lived in the institutions and also the work of the advocates and the campaigners, including Ms Catherine Corless and Justice for the Magdalenes. It would also tell the stories of other human rights struggles, perhaps for Travellers and LGBT people, as well as those with mental health issues and disabilities. It would also...

Topical Issues: Magdalen Laundries (25 Jun 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...be answered in the course of the Minister of State's reply. One concerns medical cards under the ex gratia scheme. There are concerns that the services provided may be means tested. Some of the Magdalen ladies have regular medical cards and the question is, will they use those cards in addition to the new card, or will the scheme operate as one single medical card? In the event that...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: .... We are now actively promoting children's rights and seeking to include them in the Constitution but only five or six minutes ago I was speaking on the tragedy and horrors of what went on the Magdalene laundries, when children and young girls were confined, deprived of their rights, stripped of their identity and dignity and subject to humiliating and degrading treatment at the hands of...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (20 Jul 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...of the way to ensure their children will have the same rights and access as children who do not have a disability. I thought the stories from those in the industrial schools and the ladies in the Magdalen laundries were the worst we would hear about how we treat vulnerable people. However, we are hearing more heartbreaking, devastating and disturbing stories of what has been happening to...

Establishment of a Statutory Commission of Investigation into a Foster Home in the South East: Statements (2 Feb 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...;il le scannail eile a chuaigh ar aghaidh sa tír seo. There is an air of, "Can this have happened again in recent years?", after so many similar cases in the past. It is so reminiscent of our debates and discussions on the Magdalene Laundries, the mother and baby homes, and the abuse in residential institutions where young men, women and children were so disregarded and brutalised....