Results 21-31 of 31 for magdalen speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Records (17 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...to payments made by the State to religious institutions in return for those institutions taking individuals deemed in need of institutional care such as that provided by mother and baby homes, Magdalen Laundries, children's and orphans' homes and related institutions; if he will undertake to determine the fullest extent to which these records exist; and if he will make a statement on the...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...thrown up relating to the terms of reference for the inquiry into the mother and baby homes? Are there issues that have been considered in the context of that inquiry? To take the example of the Magdalen women, I found it difficult to work through a number of cases with some of my constituents. They are believed because the institutions' records are available but general records from...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...remains. Clearly, these were not respectful burials - they were disposals, as though these children were subhuman. It is stomach-churning. The UN pulled no punches recently when it described the Magdalen laundries as places of forced labour, with slavery-like conditions. There appears to be a type of reluctant acceptance of the reality of what happened here, but the UN was able to call...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 542. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the settlement of claims made by survivors of Magdalen institutions, that where written records relating to survivors are utilised in the assessment of compensation, and where such records are disputed by the survivor concerned by means of affidavit, the way it is proposed to resolve these conflicts; and if he will make a statement on...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Murphy: .... Is the Government going to curtail or remove the right to liberty of a woman or a child? To our disgrace, we have seen how we have treated women in the past. We have seen things like the Magdalene laundries and the mother and baby homes. It may well be for different reasons. It may well have been partly because of that type of a reason. We have an obligation here. Why did citizens...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider, as part of the wider redress scheme that is to materialise in due course for survivors of the Magdalene Institutions, enabling a thorough and comprehensive record facility to be established that would allow survivors and their families access to all available genealogical and other records necessary to locate their families and...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: ...Dr. McAleese worked diligently to produce the report in a limited time period and with limited resources, and he proved the central point. Just as the doors were closed for so many years to the Magdalen women and were opened by the acknowledgement of the apology, those doors remain closed to the survivors of the Bethany Home. That needs to change now, because if we do not address it,...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: ...and girls by these institutions, and I thank Deputy MacDonald and Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. The stories of the barbaric, sadistic abuse handed out to these prisoners of the ten Magdalene asylums have been bravely brought to light by the determination and perseverance of the group committed to obtaining justice, and it is right that we acknowledge its efforts. The...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (15 Mar 2012)

Catherine Murphy: ...who challenged the system. The women who took the train to Belfast and came back with contraceptives were openly defying the State. Similar courage has been displayed by the residents of the Magdalene homes and the victims of industrial abuse. This society has been challenged by their personal stories. I almost feel sorry for the Minister because I am aware he has to be balanced in his...

Residential Institutions Redress (Amendment) Bill, 2011: Second Stage (14 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: ...published. The proposal to extend the scheme to 2013 is safe and not unreasonable. We are still waiting for belated official apologies and appropriate compensation from institutions such as the Magdalen laundries and the Bethany Home. I worry there will be a late spike in applications for compensation to the redress board. Legitimate claims will go unheard and unaddressed. For many...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (7 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to debate the following urgent matter: the proposed restorative justice and reparations scheme of Justice for Magdalenes for all survivors of the Magdalene laundries as the Irish Human Rights Commission recently published an assessment of this proposed scheme in which it recommended the State establish a statutory mechanism to...