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Seanad: 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 (27 Mar 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...chill, for the sake of our daughters and for their generation. Mr. Gerry Edwards spoke movingly at the Together for Yes launch that we have stopped dropping pregnant women and girls at the doors of Magdalen laundries. We now need also to stop dropping our pregnant women and girls at the departure gates of our airports and ports. Those are really prescient and moving words. We should...

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) See 6 other results from this debate

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...an abortion in this country for 152 years. It is absolutely shocking that legislation from 1861 had such an effect on the medical profession in this country. We only have to think back to the Magdalen laundries, to Ann Lovett, the Tuam babies, the Kerry babies and so many other heart breaking cases to be reminded of how pregnant women suffered at the hands of both the Church and the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Bríd Smith: Happy International Women's Day to everyone here and beyond, but in particular to the women of the Magdalen laundries, the subject of my question to the Tánaiste. Seven women of the Magdalen laundries have died since the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, made his apology to the House, and there is no sign of the redress being passed to these women. They have been treated...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2018)

Imelda Munster: ..., including politics, leadership, government and academia. There is a lot of work left to do. The Government has yet to deliver on the commitments it made some five years ago to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. It is an absolute shame that those survivors are still being forced to wait. The prevailing legacy of the eighth amendment is a blight on our society and one that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (8 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: 195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to implement the redress measures recommend by Mr. Justice Quirke, including back-dated pensions, access to a HAA standard card, access to the scheme for women who are deemed to lack capacity and funding for memorialisation in view of the appearance of the ombudsman at the Oireachtas justice committee to discuss his...

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Pat Buckley: .... The lack of movement on this issue is not only denying the right to persons to have an input into their care but is also holding up further needed reform. Another side-effect is that the survivors of the Magdalen laundries have died without even having redress processed. We had a bit of flip-flopping tonight - we were talking about this - and it may have inconvenienced some of...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018) See 3 other results from this debate

Katherine Zappone: ...on it. In light of those experiences, it must mean much to her that the Deputy is able to be here today and raise the issue not only on his own behalf, but on behalf of his mother and many other Magdalen laundry heroes, to use the language of my colleague. I acknowledge the Deputy's comments about the event on 5 and 6 June. I am generally in favour of, and have spoken at length about,...

Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018) See 3 other results from this debate

Rose Conway Walsh: ...happening to women, to assess how far we have come or not come in some areas. Last month, it was exactly five years since the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, apologised to the women from the Magdalen laundries on behalf of the State. He made a very sincere apology. He said that Mr. Justice John Quirke’s review with the recommendations of the provision of payments and support...

Report on Lone Parents: Motion (15 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...not be left to one side, on top of the others on child poverty etc. that are piling up with no action being taken. In this House, we have had to look honestly at what the State did to women and children right back to the time of the Magdalene laundries and the time of the Tuam babies. I do not know how many times we have referred to this each week since I became a Deputy. It very much...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Ardagh: ...at home, sick and worried that their loans will be sold off and they have not been given any assurances by the Government to date. Finally, I wish to raise the issue of the State Ombudsman's report on the Magdalen restorative justice scheme and the scathing remarks of the Ombudsman, Mr. Tyndall, about the administration of the scheme. I raised in the House in November, when his report...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Maureen O'Sullivan: The issue of institutions, whether it be mother and baby homes, industrial schools or Magdalen laundries, is harrowing and very sad when we think of the lives lost and destroyed, not to mention the physical conditions and brutality experienced by so many. Few survivors have spoken about the care they received in the institutions. It is very difficult to comprehend how adults in the...

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

Clare Daly: ...for Justice and Equality if his attention was drawn to problems by persons in his Department which were highlighted to them by the Ombudsman regarding the terms, application and operation of the Magdalene restorative justice scheme prior to the commencement of the Ombudsman's report, Opportunity Lost. [5843/18]

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Victor Boyhan: ...dreams. When I see a man and a woman begging on the streets in Dublin, when I see someone who comes to my office and has difficulty in tracing his or her family, or tells of an experience in the Magdalen laundry, or of abuse, they have not had their opportunities. It is important when we talk about a fairer society to remember we want a fairer society for all. Not for the squeezed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Barry Cowen: ...is essential to providing adequate health care for women. It is also essential for doctors to do their duties as they see fit. Since becoming a Deputy I have been present as the State offered apologies to the women of the Magdalen laundries and, more recently, to Joanna Hayes, the woman at the centre of the Kerry babies case. I have only been a Deputy for seven years but I have come to...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018) See 3 other results from this debate

Paul Murphy: I was born in 1983 in the country of the Magdalen laundries, the Kerry Babies case, the case of Ann Lovett and many other horrors. It has been said in the debate that the past is another country, and this is true in some very important respects, most importantly in respect of people's attitudes to these issues. However, in legal terms, that country continues today with the eighth amendment,...

Seanad: Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture: Statements (24 Jan 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and tell us about social concerns. Art can be challenging and it is appropriate that we embrace that challenge and welcome what artists are telling us. A key moment for me was the play about the Magdalen laundries that was first performed in Galway as a challenge to society. That spirit of art as challenging is something we need to embrace. Europe needs to ensure that cultural rights...

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 (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018) See 6 other results from this debate

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...legally - for medical reasons - and, more worryingly, illegally. There is nothing new in unintended pregnancies. Our history of dealing with unintended pregnancies by putting girls and women into Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes, industrial schools, county homes and other residential institutions is appalling testimony to that. In the 1980s, we had the Kerry babies tragedy and...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...this week in the information on the Kerry babies case and the way in which Joanne Hayes was treated. It was a very dark and lonely place for Irish women in so many ways. Others have spoken about the Magdalen laundries, the way in which children were put into institutions and the way in which unmarried mothers were treated. This is still a dark country for the thousands of Irish women...