Results 1-20 of 32 for magdalen speaker:Gerry Adams

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: I welcome the survivors of the Magdalen laundries who are in the Visitors Gallery and the hundreds of other people who are following this debate intently. I particularly commend the women and the groups and individuals who advocated on their behalf and shone the light so that the rest of us could see. Táimíd fíor-bhuíoch díobh. Táimid uilig go...

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

Gerry Adams: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will implement the recommendation of the Irish Human Rights Commission for a statutory inquiry into the abuse at the Magdalene laundries. [13446/11]

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

Gerry Adams: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the criticisms from the Irish Human Rights Commission that the human rights of prisoners, asylum seekers and former Magdalene women are being breached by the State. [13445/11]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Gerry Adams: ...to the issue of the Bethany Home survivors. I thank the Taoiseach for his answer to my earlier questions. When he made a very commendable acknowledgement of and apology to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries in this Chamber, it had been preceded by a less than sure-footed initial response by him. While it may be wrong for me to make any presumption, I have always presumed this was...

Order of Business (5 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Given that the religious orders benefited to the tune of €468 million, will legislation be introduced to make at least some of this money part of compensation for victims, especially those of Magdalene laundries? Moreover, on an issue of equality, can legislation be introduced to include people who were in Bethany House in any compensation scheme? They are blocked at present.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: In regard to the Magdalen laundries redress scheme, it may be that some of the victims have been able to avail of the scheme but there is a number who feel obstacles are being placed in their way and some have not got their full medical entitlements. They have to undertake a convoluted process. Will the Taoiseach ask someone to review that and bring back a report?

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: ...I have a very brief supplementary comment on Bethany Home. New information has emerged since 2007. I urge the Taoiseach to be very mindful of the fact that the very same thing was said about the Magdalen laundries. The same thing was said, almost word for word, until new information emerged in that regard.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. We have met Magdalen laundry survivors during the years. As I am advised that Nora Connolly O'Brien, the daughter of James Connolly, raised the issue decades ago, it is not as if it was unknown. There are many issues which need to be dealt with. In a real republic these things should not happen, but they did. It is not the Taoiseach's fault and it did...

Order of Business (5 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: ..., will the Government bring forward legislation to ensure that a portion of this money goes towards compensation for the victims of abuse in religious institutions, including those who were held in Magdalene laundries? On the issue of equality, will legislation be introduced to permit the former residents of Bethany Home to apply for redress? I pay tribute to the good people who...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: In February the Taoiseach gave a heart-felt apology on behalf of the State to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries for the hurt done to them. He rightly told the women that they were blameless and I have no doubt he was moved by their life stories when he met them. For the women, that apology for the time they were incarcerated in a brutal regime overseen by the State was a turning...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...raised elements of this during Taoiseach's questions, I was unsatisfied with the answers he gave. I am reflecting on the fact that in 2013 the Taoiseach apologised unreservedly to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries, said it was a national disgrace and said he had put in place a process to help and support the women. The Bill to facilitate this was published before Christmas and it...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: ...patrol car was hit by a stolen car. She was going about the business of protecting the community when that occurred. The McAleese report documented evidence of the abuses and denials of human rights to women in the Magdalen laundries, and confirmed the State's complicity in the detention of these women and girls in a plethora of ways. Before that, the Ryan report detailed issues...

Order of Business (21 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: Regarding the Magdalen laundries redress scheme, the Taoiseach might recall following his apology to the women who were enslaved in these laundries that the Minister for Justice and Equality committed to having a comprehensive scheme of supports for the surviving women. Mr. Justice Quirke was to examine and advise on the scheme’s mechanisms and report back to the Government within...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: Tá ceist agam faoi reachtaíocht atá fórógraithe agus ceist eile agam maidir leis an redress scheme for the Magdalen laundries, which I will ask first. The redress scheme was set up to ensure the victims of the laundries were given their full medical entitlements and that they were compensated for the decades of unpaid slave labour they endured. There are many...

Church-State Dialogue (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: ...In the course of those discussions, some legacy issues still need to be resolved. In discussions with the Catholic Church, has the Taoiseach raised or will he raise the issue of the victims of the Magdalene laundries? Does he acknowledge that the State and the Catholic Church - certainly, the hierarchy - owe a public apology to those women, and that a redress scheme should be...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...of Fianna Fáil and of its leadership. A succession of damning reports, including the Ryan commission report, the Ferns inquiry report, the Cloyne report and the Murphy report and the scandal of the Magdalen laundries and the Bethany Home all exposed the extent to which the Catholic hierarchy and the Irish State and successive Governments made up of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...That did not happen. We need an opportunity to debate these serious issues. Will the terms of reference include county homes, the Westbank Orphanage, some of the Protestant institutions and the Magdalen Laundries? There is an indication that others will be appointed to the commission. When can we expect to know who they might be? The same sex marriage and presidential election...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...and knowledge is that it has not been and I ask him to clarify this. If it has not been included in the commission's terms of reference, as is my belief, it should be. With regard to the Magdalen laundries, as the Taoiseach said, the women concerned were held in horrific conditions. They were slaves. They should be part of this important investigation in their own right and treated as...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Yesterday, the women of the Magdalen laundries heard the words they needed to hear. It is now crucial they are properly compensated for what was done to them. Tá a fhios ag an Taoiseach gur tús maith, leath na hoibre. Chuir na mná fáilte roimh an óráid an-mhaith agus na focail an-fhlaithiúil a labhair sé inné. Today, I want to tease out with...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: ...by his terms of reference and will not be able to act outside them, so all of the questions I have raised are very pertinent and, indeed, some of them have been raised by advocacy groups for the Magdalen women. We need to ensure no one is unjustly excluded from compensation. A number of us brought in the women sufferers of symphysiotomy and we gave them a standing ovation. Until last...