Results 21-40 of 90 for magdalen speaker:Frances Fitzgerald

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (8 Feb 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...by Scheme. The Deputy will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to comment at this stage as to do so might serve to prejudice the respective ongoing consideration processes. The Magdalen Laundries Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme was set up following the publication of the report in February, 2013 of an Inter-Departmental Committee set up to establish the facts of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (2 Feb 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: This question appears to relate to two separate ongoing actions relating to the operation of Ex Gratia Magdalene Restorative Justice Scheme administered by my Department. The first involves Judicial Review cases currently before the High Court taken by two applicants who were refused compensation as neither had been resident in one of the 12 specified institutions provided for under the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (29 Nov 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can advise the Deputy that the Government made the decision to provide a grant to the Irish Women Survivors Support Network (IWSSN) as over 20% of the applicants to the Magdalen Laundries Redress Scheme are resident in the UK. From an early stage in the process the IWSSN had engaged with my Department, the McAleese Committee and with Judge Quirke. As the Deputy may be aware, the IWSSN...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (16 Nov 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...Questions Nos. 85 and 87 together. I can advise the Deputy that in October 2014 the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on request from my Department, circulated an information note on the Magdalen Laundries Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme through their embassies around the world to the local Irish communities. My Department is not aware of the details of every organisation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (16 Nov 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...the particular publication on two occasions and discussed the question of an advertisement or article. Following on from this, my officials provided background information and details about the Magdalen Scheme to the publication. The Deputy will be aware that the McAleese and Quirke Reports and the establishment of the Magdalen Scheme attracted worldwide media attention. The Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Eligibility (15 Nov 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...by the Residential Institutions Redress Board Scheme operated by the Department of Education and Skills. It is assumed that the Deputy is enquiring as to whether An Grianán is also covered by the Magdalen Laundries Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme under the remit of my Department. The Magdalen Scheme is limited to 12 named institutions - the 10 Magdalen laundries that were...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (23 Jun 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...as Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter, met with the four religious congregations involved in June 2013. They were asked to make a contribution to the cost of implementing the Magdalen Laundries Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme. Following reflection on the matter all four congregations declined to make a financial contribution towards the implementation of the scheme. ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (9 Jun 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can advise the Deputy that the processing of all applications to the Magdalene Laundries Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme starts off on the premise that the testimony of the applicant is correct and the officers processing the application then seek to verify the application by checking appropriate records. If there are records and they are consistent with the application, then an offer...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (19 May 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy is aware the Magdalene Laundries were private institutions run by the Religious Orders. While labour affairs are a matter for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and taxation affairs are a matter for the Revenue Commissioners, I am not aware of any special arrangements for the Religious Orders. If the Deputy has any evidence of wrongdoing in this regard she can...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (19 May 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy is aware the Magdalene Laundries were private institutions run by the Religious Orders. While labour affairs are a matter for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and taxation affairs are a matter for the Revenue Commissioners, I am not aware of any special arrangements for the Religious Orders. If the Deputy has any evidence of wrongdoing in this regard she...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (26 Apr 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can advise the Deputy that to date, 807 applications have been received under the Magdalen Laundries Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme, 103 of which were refused as the women had not been admitted to one of the twelve specified institutions. My Department has paid lump sums to 624 women at a cost of over €23 m. Eleven applications were received from women who are now...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (3 Nov 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 512 to 519, inclusive, together. These questions seek a breakdown by institution of the number of women and girls in Magdalene Laundries in each the eight decades from the 1920's to the 1990's. The available statistics are those in the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries -...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (3 Nov 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The available statistics are those in the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries - otherwise known as the McAleese Report - which submitted its report to Government in February 2013. That Report is available on my Department's website - www.justice.ie. This Committee no longer exists. As advised in my response to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (3 Nov 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries - otherwise known as the McAleese Report - submitted its report to Government in February 2013. That Report is available on my Department's website - www.justice.ie. The Committee, with Dr. McAleese as its independent Chair, was established in July 2011 and no longer exists. I can advise...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (3 Nov 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The available statistics are those in the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries - otherwise known as the McAleese Report - which submitted its report to Government in February 2013. The Report is available on my Department's website - www.justice.ie. That Committee no longer exists and its report does not contain...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (3 Nov 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries - otherwise known as the McAleese Report - submitted its report to Government in February 2013. Mr Justice Quirke was then asked by Government to make recommendations on an ex gratia scheme for the benefit of those women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (13 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will be aware, the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries, the McAleese Report, was published on 5th February 2013 and gave a fully comprehensive answer to the question posed by its terms of reference. The Report is a detailed, carefully researched document running to over 1,000 pages and brought into...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (13 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will be aware, the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries, the McAleese Report, was published on 5th February 2013 and gave a fully comprehensive answer to the question posed by its terms of reference. The Report is a detailed, carefully researched document running to over 1,000 pages and brought into...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (30 Jun 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with Magdalen Laundries (the McAleese report) provides an independent, comprehensive, factual account of the Magdalen institutions and informed the Government decision to establish an ex gratia scheme for women who entered and worked in such institutions. To date nearly €20m has been paid out in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (30 Jun 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...a criminal nature in these institutions was found. The majority of women did report verbal abuse but not of a nature that would constitute a criminal offence. One woman did report an incident (not in a Magdalen institution) to the Chairperson of the Committee which if proven would constitute a serious criminal offence. In response to this, arrangements were made for the Gardaí...