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Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Michael Colreavy: This month I witnessed the best and the worst aspects of the operations of Dáil Éireann. The worst came two weeks ago in the form of the Taoiseach's initial response to the Magdalen report in the aftermath of its publication. The Taoiseach gave a lecture on statistics instead of dealing with the crimes perpetrated against the girls and women who were put in Magdalen laundries. In...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Finian McGrath: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the Magdalen laundries report. I warmly welcome the apology that the Taoiseach made in the Dáil last week. It was considered, respectful and, above all, the right thing to do for the Magdalen women. I commend him on issuing an apology on behalf of all Members of the Oireachtas. When somebody in this House gets it right, it is important to...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...worked with him for their report and for the cost-effective way in which they brought it to Government. He will always be remembered for that. A number of questions have been posed by Justice for Magdalenes on the three-month process to be undertaken by Mr. Justice John Quirke. They are as follows. Will Mr. Justice Quirke be commissioned to implement the process he recommends after...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: From the foundation of the Irish State in 1922, 10,000 girls and women passed through the institutions known as the Magdalen laundries. The report of a group chaired by the former Senator Dr. McAleese, which was released a few weeks ago, shows how the State was directly responsible for approximately one quarter of admissions to those institutions. In many cases those involved were sent to...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Alan Shatter: ...to thank those on all sides of the House who have contributed to this important discussion since it commenced. Last Tuesday, 19 February 2013, was a very important day for former residents of the Magdalen laundries. It was the day when 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...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Ciara Conway: ...to speak on this issue and to have been here for what was a long overdue apology - a heartfelt apology that has given great comfort and solace to the women who found themselves incarcerated in the Magdalen laundries for many years. As the youngest female Member of this House, I think it incumbent on me to say that, thankfully, in this day and age it is hard for me to imagine that these...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Sandra McLellan: ...again on this exceptionally disturbing issue, one of the most important to come before the House since the foundation of the State. I welcome the Taoiseach's official apology to survivors of the Magdalen laundries which he gave in the House on 19 February. It was moving to see so many of the surviving women and their supporters, friends and families in the Visitors Gallery on the evening...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: ...in the past has thankfully been laid bare, not just before this House but also before the nation. An entire generation can now witness what the threat of being sent to institutions such as the Magdalen laundries meant to their forebears. The information that has emerged shows what society used to be like, what we were prepared to put up with and what we allowed to take place. This...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: When the matter was adjourned yesterday evening I was suggesting that we must give recognition to the women who are the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. They stayed with the subject and were not put off by the fact that they were not heard or that their issue was not addressed. We owe them a great debt of gratitude for remaining with the subject and seeing out their case and cause, and...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very delicate and important issue, the abuse of women for decades in the Magdalen laundries. I wish to be associated with the apology of the Taoiseach who expressed deep regret and apologised unreservedly to all the women concerned for the hurt done to them and any stigma they had suffered as a result of their time spent in the Magdalen laundries. ...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: In 2010, speaking from the Opposition benches, I said the terrible ordeal of the women committed to the Magdalen laundries was one of the last unresolved issues of the hidden Ireland. I am glad to say the Government is now acting decisively to resolve the issue and that at long last what was hidden and covered up has been exposed and brought into the light. It has been revealed that the...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As I have outlined before, Sinn Féin welcomed the apology from the Taoiseach on behalf of the State to the women incarcerated in the Magdalen laundries. While we commend those involved in putting together the McAleese report, it really only scratches the surface of what went on in Ireland during that time. This should be seen as a starting point in the healing process of the wounds...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Clare Daly: ...the abuse that went on in those institutions. We cannot have that and those points need to be explored further. We have pages and pages of testimony painfully collected in the Justice for Magdalenes submission outlining countless instances of physical abuse meted out to people. I will not go on too much about it but there many different examples. According to one respondent, "if...