Results 21-26 of 26 for magdalen speaker:Kathleen Lynch

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Could I just clarify whether the Tánaiste is telling me that she has had consultation with the groups to whom I referred, Justice for the Magdalenes and the women of the Bethany Homes?

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (6 Jul 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Defence the length of time the Defence Forces were using the services of institutional laundries such as Magdalene Laundries, as distinct from commercial laundries, post-1941; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29887/10]

Order of Business. (24 Jun 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: On the privacy Bill, will the Minister, on behalf of the Government, ensure that records kept by religious bodies relating to women kept in Magdalene laundries will be made available?

(8 Jul 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: ...I think about how I would feel if someone took them away and did those awful things to them. This Bill, as progressive and as expansive as it is, still does not go far enough. We still have the Magdalen laundries women and we need to deal with that because they may have been put in there by their parents or the parish priest or the local sergeant or by the other institution which we have...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: ...of State, Deputy Curran, the young girl's age when she had her baby, he and I would know that she is still alive. Certain people should be included in the redress scheme, namely, the women in the Magdalen laundries. Women still live in the one in Cork because they are so institutionalised that they cannot live independently. Mothers and fathers, including those who are still alive, were...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: ...would be prepared to put his or her neck on the line and take someone on in court over the at-risk register. Whistleblowers need to be protected more and we need to keep talking about women in the Magdalen laundries and the mothers, fathers and siblings of the children in question, people who were traumatised, as this letter makes clear. People who feel justified in complaining so as to...