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Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Mick Wallace: More than a year ago, I was approached in the Italian quarter by a woman who had been in one of the Magdalen laundries. She had spent 16 years in an industrial school, was found by her mother and moved with her to England, where she stayed for nine months. She left because she was being abused by her stepfather and on her return to Ireland, she was picked up by the gardaí and brought...

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...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...journalism, most notably that of the late Mary Raftery, the inquiries into industrial schools, the diligence of human rights activists and advocacy groups and, above all, the immense bravery of Magdalen women and their families put the truth on the record. We have known of the trauma endured by women and girls for some time. The 2009 Ryan report made an explicit reference to the abuse...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: According to the McAleese report there was no single or simple story of the Magdalen laundries. A system of slavery, servitude and enforced labour is the single, simple story of the Magdalen laundries. I am glad that the Taoiseach recognised that in the apology given on behalf of the State concerning that era when women were subjected to such treatment over the decades. The women in the...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: ...apology and to provide a tangible expression of our regret and acknowledgement of the wrong that was done. We want to work with you, and we ask you to work with us. Today is not the end for the Magdalen survivors. No apology, no matter now sincere, can ever erase what happened. We cannot turn back the clock and undo what was done to so many. What we can do is acknowledge the wrong,...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...met with them to assist in its compilation. I also thank the religious orders who co-operated fully with Dr. McAleese. Together, they have helped provide Ireland with a document of truth. The Magdalen laundries have cast a long shadow over Irish life and over our sense of who we are. It is just two weeks since we received this report, the first ever detailed report into the...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: I grew up on a street on which there was a Magdalen laundry, the Waterford Institution, which housed 120 women at any time. I lived across the road from it when I was a child. When I was growing up there was an average of 60 women in the Waterford Institution at any time. Although I was aware as a child that a laundry operated from the building, I had no idea that the building was the...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Seán Barrett: I call on the Taoiseach to make a statement on the report of the interdepartmental committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries.

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Alan Shatter: Today is a very important day for former residents of the Magdalen laundries. It is the day the Taoiseach, on behalf of the State, acknowledged their hurt and apologised for their suffering as a result of their being admitted to and working in a Magdalen laundry and the stigma many of them have felt throughout their lives. It is the day the State acknowledged the extent to which time spent...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's welcome apology on behalf of the State was long overdue. The Magdalen women have waited, hoped and prayed for this moment. Many of them despaired that it might never come, but it has. Today saw a full acknowledgement of the wrong done to them. They were wronged. The State was complicit in their detention and abuse in the laundries. It oversaw a system of slave labour,...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...and a citizen of the State. His apology is owed to all of the women concerned. He has given a voice to those whose voice was stolen from them and in finding their voice, the survivors of the Magdalen laundries and their supporters have shown great courage, dignity and inspiration. Those of us who have met the women in recent years could not help but be inspired and humbled by the manner...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...happened to the ladies. Article 40.1 of Bunreacht na hÉireann states that "All citizens shall, as human persons, be held equal before the law." There was no equality, however, for the ladies of the Magdalen laundries, the children of the industrial schools, the ladies who suffered symphysiotomy procedures, thalidomide survivors and the post-polio group. Despite this, Article 40.1...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...fulsome, honest and heartfelt apology on behalf of the Government, the Cabinet, backbenchers, his party and, more importantly, the people of this country. I welcome the remaining members of the Magdalen women who are present in the Gallery this evening. I met them outside the gates of Leinster House. They did themselves proud with the dignity with which they held their silent,...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Micheál Martin: Over many decades thousands of women spent time in Magdalen laundries because the State put them there. Thousands more went to the laundries because they had no alternative. They worked and lived in harsh conditions, often deprived of the most basic freedoms. This should not have been allowed. The State failed in its duties towards its citizens and it is right and proper that on behalf of...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...and the deprivation of food for those girls and women who refused to work. Furthermore, the committee did not include in its report the 800 pages of written testimony provided by the Justice for Magdalenes advocacy groups. These testimonies, both from survivors and other witnesses, illustrate that many women experienced physical punishment during their times in the laundries. I would...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Things are as they are, however. Given that, I will try to do justice to the issues as I see them following the Taoiseach's statement. As the Taoiseach and others have stated, the history of the Magdalen laundries is a dark and utterly shameful chapter in the history of the State. It is a history of 90 years in which more than 10,000 innocent women, who did nothing wrong, were...