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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Department of Children and Youth Affairs (8 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...processes there will be, and how many records have been handed over so far. Do we know how many records have been handed over? When former Senator Martin McAleese was writing the report on the Magdalen laundries, the different charities gave him records, but he handed them back. How is the State collecting those records, especially records from outside the State? Many children went to...

Seanad: State Claims Agency: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

Kathryn Reilly: ...acknowledgement when the State is in the wrong and adequate redress for survivors and victims of the State's wrongdoings. I would do a disservice to the survivors of symphysiotomy, the victims of the Magdalen laundries and industrial schools and brave citizens such as Louise O'Keeffe if I did not highlight some of the hypocrisy at play. It was mentioned that the State Claims Agency was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

...of the State. We have done many things in terms of our independence but there is a legacy of not looking after mothers and babies. Whether it was in the context of the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries, the industrial schools or whatever, there is a legacy of not looking after our most precious resource - our mothers and babies. Let us hope that we can actually make the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...with serious physical and psychological effects, travelling miles to school from far-flung hotels and hostels and are unable to get healthy food and so on. The Taoiseach shed a tear for the Magdalens. These are the Magdalens of this generation and in years to come, the Taoiseach will be held to account for his action on homelessness. Let us confine ourselves to family homelessness....

Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: ...and when they are able to raise them with dignity and respect, etc. Would that not be a great Ireland? It is embarrassing that in the past, people who had crisis pregnancies were hidden behind the walls of Magdalen laundries or confined to mother and baby homes. Years later, we had to apologise for the damage we did to them. Now we tell people in such circumstances that we know they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (22 Sep 2015)

Finian McGrath: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the health care provisions for survivors (details supplied) of the Magdalen laundries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30609/15]

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...the Houses, but I raised an issue to which the Leader did not get to respond due to the shenanigans going on, about a number of women who do not have much time to wait. I refer to the 1,512 women who have signed up the Magdalen redress scheme. In order to sign up the women were required to indemnify the State. They did so on the understanding that the Government would honour in full the...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...;il leis sular mbíonn briseadh againne. The Deputies may be getting ready to pack up and go off on their holidays but an issue has come to the fore which the Seanad might be able to deal with. So far, 512 women have signed up for the Magdalen redress scheme. In order to sign up, the women were required to indemnify the State. They did this on the understanding that the Government...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

James Heffernan: ...and children on these shores. In Ireland, we have a shameful and diabolical way of treating victims of institutional abuse in particular. This morning, I met with many of the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. There are a number of things they are not happy about. One is that we are still stigmatising and labelling these people, as if they had committed some horrendous crime. As...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (14 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Clare Daly: I cannot believe we are in the Chamber discussing this again. This is another circumstance which, to my mind, represents an utter betrayal of the women who survived the Magdalen laundries. In their youth these women were violated and abandoned by the State. They had to fight for decades to receive redress for the damage done to them by the State. Now, we are about to implement this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (9 Jul 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 46. To ask the Minister for Health how he will respond to the health needs of those Magdalen laundry survivors living outside Ireland; if he will prioritise those of advanced years with serious health issues; and if there will be a comprehensive accessible guide on health entitlements for all the survivors. [27697/15]

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Tell me about the Magdalens. Tell me about the institutional sexual abuse and what this Government has done to try to help the victims-----

Other Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...this work for 40 years. It has been an advocate and an independent voice for rape victims from a time when the State did not care about rape victims, when there were mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries and control over women was in full swing in this country. Now Tusla has cut core funding for Rape Crisis Network Ireland, using the excuse that its data collection was not of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Magdalen Laundries (8 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: ...if he has been in contact with the Department of Health to inquire into the reason information which the Health Service Executive had in 2012, unearthed as part of the McAleese inquiries into the Magdalen laundries, showing wholesale unlawful practices regarding adoption in the Bessborough mother and baby home, was not passed on to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: ...by the Health Service Executive (HSE) based on records from the former Bessborough mother and baby home as part of its response to the Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries.This process, which was independently chaired by Martin McAleese, was conducted under the auspices of the Department of Justice and Equality. In the course of this work the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (7 Jul 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 299. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that all has been done to address the medical needs of those survivors of the Magdalen laundries living abroad, in view of a recent response to a Topical Issue debate on this matter on 25 June 2015. [27173/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: ..., equality and inclusivity. Lest we be too pious about all of this, there are lots of reminders of religious fundamentalism, including Catholic fundamentalism, in the scandals of the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and the mistreatment of women. The Government established a commission of investigation into mother and baby homes and certain related matters. The commission...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 367. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her officials are considering setting up an independent inquiry into the Magdalen laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26041/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 368. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality whether she or her Department believe there will be any prosecutions made following the McAleese report on the Magdalen laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26042/15]

Topical Issues: Magdalen Laundries (25 Jun 2015) See 4 other results from this debate

Ann Phelan: ...of the Minister for Health. I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for her interest in this issue. The Deputy will be aware the Government decided that a non-adversarial scheme for women who had worked in Magdalen laundries or similar institutions should be introduced and it asked Mr. Justice Quirke to make recommendations on an appropriate scheme. The Government accepted all the recommendations of...