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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Monuments (22 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: ...would have an adverse impact on the setting, character and function of the Garden of Remembrance. In view of the architecture of containment and the pathways between Industrial/Reformatory schools, Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes, it is worth considering that memorialisation measures should encompass a whole of society approach. I would welcome your views and your...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (28 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 769. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a clear timeline for the memorialisation and education process to ensure the atrocities of the Magdalen laundries are remembered; if a timeline has not been put in place, the steps she is taking to develop same; if the Justice for Magdalenes research 2020 report at the Dublin Honours Magdalenes event will be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jul 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Gary Gannon: ...world before Covid-19. In February 2013, the Tánaiste's predecessor as leader of Fine Gael and former Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny, made a heartfelt and profound apology to victims and survivors of the Magdalen laundries. In May 2013 that apology came with a suite of recommendations from Mr. Justice John Quirke on how we could memorialise and give basic provisions to those survivors....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Advocacy Service (7 Jul 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...that my officials made contact with both the nursing home concerned, and with the National Advocacy Service. Both organisations been appraised of the potential that there may be former residents of Magdalen institutions now residing in this nursing home, and that the Department is keen to ensure that all such residents are provided with access to appropriate advocates to ensure their best...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (16 Jun 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...Jason Wallace are also available for study. The plays Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan and Tribes by Nina Raine and the novel The Lauras by Sara Taylor explore the experiences of marginalised groups, namely women in the Magdalene laundries, the deaf community and transgender teenagers. The classic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley offers significant scope to explore the concept of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Advocacy Service (16 Jun 2020) See 5 other results from this answer

Catherine Murphy: 341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to refer Magdalen survivors living at a location (details supplied) to the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities; the degree of engagement his Department has had with the service and the nursing home in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10881/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Advocacy Service (16 Jun 2020)

Charles Flanagan: My Department has responsibility for the Magdalen Restorative Justice Implementation Unit, which was established to administer the Magdalen Ex-Gratia Scheme. This involves the processing of applications to the Scheme, the payment of the ex-gratia awards to eligible applicants and the transmission of relevant details to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commemorative Events (13 May 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...the institutions and their life following discharge from the institutions. Since the publication of the Ryan Report many other pathways to Institutionalisation have been disclosed including Magdalen Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. While there are currently no specific plans for a National Day for survivors of abuse in the institutions scheduled in the Residential...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (10 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered broadening the terms of the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme for those who were resident in one of the 14 adjoining institutions to include men who were young boys at the time and lived and worked with their sisters in the Magdalen institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...a view to advising the Government on medium to long-term service provision. There are a number of other areas in the Vote where there are overspends and underspends and they are set out in the Supplementary Estimate briefing provided to the committee. The overspends primarily relate to a number of the administrative subheads, including salaries and ICT, criminal legal aid, the Magdalen...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Magdalen Laundries (3 Dec 2019)

Noel Rock: 643. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding is available for the development of a Magdalen laundries museum on Séan McDermott Street, Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49799/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of infants in emergency accommodation are unable to learn to crawl, chew or speak or to have anything like a normal developmental pathway, that is criminal abuse and child abuse. It is the Magdalen laundries of the 21st century waiting to happen. If it continues, we will be looking at redress schemes such as those we saw for the women and girls of the Magdalen laundries. It is utterly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Retention of Records Bill 2019: Discussion (26 Nov 2019) See 5 other results from this debate

...being denied a copy of their own transcript of evidence, as well as their own personal records that the commission holds of the death and burial of family members. As for the McAleese committee’s State records relating to the Magdalen laundries, the Department of the Taoiseach is currently holding that entire archive secret, claiming it is holding it for safekeeping and not for the...

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: ...This is absolute madness, but also very dangerous. On direct provision, the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, MASI, has described direct provision as a shame on Ireland, comparable to the Magdalen Laundries. When direct provision was introduced, it was claimed that it was meant to be a temporary measure for six months. If that was the case, it might be tolerable. The average...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

...needs to look at the issue of reparations. We have to acknowledge this injustice as we have acknowledged the injustice committed upon the women who were institutionalised in such places as the Magdalen laundries. A total of 60 years of State-sponsored denial of Traveller identity and culture has not only impacted on their educational attainment but has created an internalised oppression,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (5 Nov 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: ...für behinderte Menschen; - income which has arisen to an individual as a result of the investment of a relevant payment within the meaning of such under section 205A, which is generally payments relating to the Magdalen Laundries. The investment undertaking must deduct the exit tax in the normal manner, but the individual or trust may be entitled to a repayment of the exit tax. The...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: .... Section 6 extends an exemption from tax for payments made to compensate individuals for expenses incurred in the donation of a kidney to also include those who donate a lobe of a liver. Section 7 makes a technical amendment to the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme. Sections 8 to 10 deal with SARP, KEEP and FED. Section 11 seeks to maintain the status quofor qualifying UK...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (23 Oct 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...He cared fundamentally about people. That was his innate skill. Many people will not be aware of the following, so I will share it with the House. Feargal employed many people who came from the Magdalen laundries in south County Dublin. He took a particular interest in the people who grew up in Madonna House in Stillorgan. I think of one particular woman, whom I will call Lily. He...

Child Maintenance: Motion (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...is the so-called economic upturn? The only conclusion I can come to is that the State has not come to terms with its shame in respect of lone parents, shame that lingers from the time of the Magdalen laundries, from when divorce was illegal and from when children outside marriage were shunned. We should now address our sense of shame about nearly 250,000 people in this country once and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (3 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...; €235,269  17  €383,058  29  €618,328  Mortgage Interest Supplement  12  €193,296  11  €226,182  23  €419,478  Disablement Benefit  15  €474,669  5  €106,173  20  €580,842  Rent Allowance  7  €117,742 ...