Results 21-40 of 201 for magdalen speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Papal Visit (27 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...engagement? Outside of theology, what discussions will the Taoiseach have with the Pope and what matters does he intend to raise with him? Does he propose to raise the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and all of those experiences? Does he intend to raise the fact that so many victims and survivors feel very let down by church authorities? I raise these matters very...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the timeframe for the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Ombudsman’s report on an investigation into the administration of the Magdalen restorative justice scheme. [17709/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...? I understand from media reports that he has finally agreed to implement the Ombudsman's recommendations following a scathing report late last year on the Department's administration of the Magdalen laundry redress scheme. The report came on foot of complaints made by 27 women who had been excluded by the Department from the scheme. Even after the investigation was complete, the first...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of an entirely sexist view of the world and the conservative social values that dominated our society for decades. The power and influence of the church and its strict reactionary doctrine were central to that system. It was the dogma that produced the now infamous Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes, when women were incarcerated against their will behind high walls and wrought...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has issued payments from the ex-gratia Magdalene restorative justice scheme to the 19 women whose payments were being delayed by his Department on the basis that the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 provisions were not yet in place; if not, the date by which he plans to do so; and if he will make...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and inserted into the Constitution. I do not think there is a woman of my age in Ireland who cannot still feel how that atmosphere felt. After all, this was the Ireland of the mother and baby homes and the Magdalen laundries. It was an Ireland where women were to be subjugated and kept quiet inside the home to accept their fate. This obsessive control of women did not happen by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Apology (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of discussions he has had with Dublin City Council senior management regarding the creation of an appropriate memorial at the Gloucester Street Magdalen laundry site on Seán McDermott Street, Dublin 1; and the assistance his Department has provided to Dublin City Council to progress the engagement with Magdalen laundry survivors...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Apology (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 611. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the work undertaken by his Department regarding the Quirke report recommendation that a memorial to the Magdalen women be funded and provided for by the Government; and if this work includes engagement with Dublin City Council officials to develop a memorial on the former Magdalen laundry site on Sean McDermott Street, Dublin...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Government makes numerous commitments to older people, empowering women, protecting children and young people and equality and inclusiveness. It appears that when it comes to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries all of these worthy commitments go out the window. Following a comprehensive investigation into the administration of the Magdalen restorative justice scheme, the Ombudsman...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...behind the guilt of other parties and private institutions. That will not cut it. It is not good enough. We know the history of neglect and abuse of women and girls in many institutions such as Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes and county homes, not to mention industrial schools. The fascinating and almost morbid element is that to get the full picture of what was going on...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...a public inquiry into a recent press report (details supplied) that claims that a corporation in the United States of America was able to use cheap labour, in the form of women incarcerated in some Magdalen laundries and other institutions, over many years to make profits for that company that are not taxable in Ireland; if she will request the religious orders to pay into the survivors'...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...press report, (details supplied) why religious orders were given such a high level of autonomy to collude with global multi-national companies in providing cheap labour, in women incarcerated in Magdalene Laundries and other institutions, to make profits which they did not have to pay taxes on; why these companies were not obliged to pay adequate wages to their workforce; and if she will...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of her family? I am raising this very particularly because the delegates are going to very great lengths to emphasise these were private arrangements. It is actually very reminiscent of the Magdalen laundries, this private arrangement carry-on. The initial statement looks to me kind of dishonourable in that it wishes to hang the culpability for all of this around the neck of Ann's...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 1,846 women and girls confined in the Magdalene laundries during the 1920s, given that the McAleese report merely offers a breakdown of entries by decade, but not by institution (details supplied) [37292/15]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 2,695 women and girls confined in the Magdalene laundries during the 1930s, given that the McAleese report merely offers a breakdown of entries by decade, but not by institution (details supplied). [37293/15]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 2,498 women and girls confined in the Magdalene laundries during the 1940s, given that the McAleese report merely offers a breakdown of entries by decade, but not by institution (details supplied). [37294/15]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 1,725 women and girls confined in the Magdalene laundries during the 1950s, given that the McAleese report merely offers a breakdown of entries by decade, but not by institution (details supplied). [37295/15]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.167 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 1,593 women and girls confined in the Magdalene laundries during the 1960s, given that the McAleese report merely offers a breakdown of entries by decade, but not by institution (details supplied). [37296/15]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 660 women and girls confined in the Magdalene laundries during the 1970s, given that the McAleese report merely offers a breakdown of entries by decade, but not by institution (details supplied). [37297/15]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 147 women and girls confined in the Magdalene laundries during the 1980s, given that the McAleese report merely offers a breakdown of entries by decade, but not by institution (details supplied). [37298/15]