Results 21-40 of 50 for magdalen speaker:Catherine Connolly

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: With regard to the opening statement and the Vote, money has been saved on the Magdalen laundry ex gratiascheme. We had that scheme and its extension as a result of the Ombudsman's report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...s report. I thought we might have learned from all of the schemes we have had and rolled it out properly. Will Mr. O'Driscoll update me on why there are savings? I am on page 20, relating to the Magdalen fund. The Estimate provision was more than €4 million. The outturn was substantially below that. We all know that there is a delay in implementing part of the Act and Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: .... There were serious problems with the Department and that is why it is going through a transformation and why we have had many reports such as the Toland report. I will leave that aside. The Magdalen scheme is being administered under the Department. What has been learned with regard to administering the scheme effectively for people who are very vulnerable? What appeal process is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications in respect of an award under the terms of the addendum to the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme; the number of persons granted an award; the number of persons awaiting a decision in respect of their application; the reason therefor; the number of persons considered ineligible for an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (26 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 436 of 6 November 2018 and 127 of 24 January 2019, the status of an application by a person (details supplied) to the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9519/19]

Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...has been utterly aware that something was seriously wrong in respect of mother and baby homes throughout the country. Much of that documentation and knowledge came from the McAleese inquiry into the Magdalen laundries. While it was not his brief to look into that, all of the information came to the surface, which may be a bad choice of words. I note the principal social worker for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 436 of 6 November 2018, the status of an application by a person (details supplied) to the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3512/19]

Centenary of 1918 General Election: Statements (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...the male-dominated medical profession to defeat the most basic mother and baby scheme in 1951. It created the Ireland of the institutions, the legacy of which we are still dealing with. It was the Ireland of the Magdalen laundries, industrial schools and mother and baby homes. It gave us the Ireland of inequality which allowed men up to 65 to disinherit their wives completely. It...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (29 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...evidence from women and relatives or friends providing corroborating information will be given equal, if not superior weight, as the records of the religious orders in respect of applications to the Magdalen restorative justice ex-gratia scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49815/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the addendum to the terms of Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme presumes that no child under 12 years of age worked in a Magdalen laundry in view of the fact that the McAleese report confirms that some children under 12 years of age did; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48693/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if testamentary evidence will be accepted as evidence for the purposes of the addendum to the terms of the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48694/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Data (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when all State records relating to the Magdalen laundries from the McAleese archive will be released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48696/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (6 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the recommendation by the Ombudsman to extend the Magdalen laundry redress scheme to women that worked as children in Magdalen laundries will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45587/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (6 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 436. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) to the Magdalen restorative justice ex-gratia scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45595/18]

Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (25 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...2009, is still empty. The Department is now completing a geophysical survey and we do not know its results. There is an intimate connection between this institution and the mother and baby home in Tuam. In the course of the Magdalen inquiry under then Senator McAleese, a great deal of information emerged. I have highlighted this to the Minister before now. Many Deputies were given...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...maximum information being made available. This is also the day we have learned, quite incredibly, that the Government has changed the application process for compensation for women who worked in Magdalen laundries. It now requires them to specify the number of weekly hours worked, completely disregarding the spirit and content of the Quirke report. Similarly, there is the case of...

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...were given to the highest officials in the HSE with a note that said they should go all the way up to the Minister. In respect of the mother and baby home and Bessborough, and in the context of the Magdalene laundry, where information came up the people in charge said that it was beyond their scope. This is what they highlighted. In both of these cases, that is, in both mother and baby...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It was a missed opportunity and I use the phrase carefully. I will come to the Magdalen laundries matter and an opportunity lost in a moment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...all these reports and learning about openness, accountability and change and about moving quickly. That would be the purpose of all of this. This leads me into the opportunity lost for the Magdalen laundries. On the factual side, there have been 691 awards, 106 refused, 15 are outstanding in respect of capacity and there are, I think, 25 others. Are there others to come forward? Has...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...if she attended. For example, Lenaboy industrial school in Galway was listed under the redress board. If someone who attended it did not make a claim to the board but had subsequently gone to the Magdalen laundry in Galway, that person would be excluded under this scheme.