Results 61-80 of 85 for magdalen speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Now we know the truth, and we believe the stories of the women from the Magdalen laundries who spoke to the McAleese committee. Deputy McGrath himself has given some ideas without having read the report. As a democratically elected represented, he has a duty to contribute to the debate when it happens, in the context of reconciliation and closure, in which the Government is interested.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ...in this world, people find it very hard to say, "I am sorry". I said this yesterday and I repeat it again today on behalf of the State: I am sorry that so many women worked and were resident in Magdalen laundries in a very harsh, authoritarian environment.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ..., Deputy Shatter, when in opposition, was proven to be correct because the report points out the involvement of the State in the placing of 25% of those women, through one route or another, in Magdalen laundries. I do believe the stories of the women. I do believe that this is the truth about what happened to them, about their lives and their life experience. I do believe that the...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ...Government made a decision to set up a committee and have a report produced. Former Senator McAleese has produced that. It is the first time that the truth of the scale of what happened in the Magdalen laundries, told by the women who were there, has actually been made public. I genuinely believe-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: What I am interested in is repeating that, on behalf of this State, I am absolutely sorry for all that happened in the Magdalen laundries. Deputy McDonald might think that is not sufficient but if people had said they were sorry for actions on many occasions in the past-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ...the McAleese report, consider it sensitively and comprehensively and then we will decide what is the best thing to do in order to look after the needs and the requirements of the survivors of the Magdalen laundries.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is the story of young women and girls in Magdalen laundries during a very long and sad period in this State's history. Unlike all other Governments-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I accept the Deputy's comment, his expression of sorrow of not having dealt with the Magdalen laundries situation when responsibility was his and his party's. If I recall correctly, they refused to investigate it then, but that is a different issue. This Government is dealing with it. In the context of the McAleese report, which sets out the truth, it should also be recognised, in...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ...and Equality, Deputy Shatter, and the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, before the United Nations committee made its recommendation. This, however, is about women and young girls who entered Magdalen laundries through a variety of routes. As the report points out, this is not a simple, single issue. The Government is genuinely concerned at bringing about reconciliation and closure to the...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: On the Magdalen report, once again I think Senator McAleese for his report, which is 1,000 pages long and very comprehensive. I think of the 10,000 residents. They know their stories, they have told their stories and their stories have been believed. Many of them lived with an undeserved stigma that was of great disservice to the experience of these women. That stigma has been removed by...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ...been uncovered and laid out for everyone to read and to understand, to discuss and debate arising from the McAleese report. It might interest the Deputy that just over 10% of those who attended Magdalen laundries were sent there by families, while 19% of those residents in the Magdalen laundries went in there themselves. As I pointed out to the Deputy, the admission figures of 14,000...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: What Deputy Shatter said when he was on the far side of the House in opposition has been proven to be true. There was State intervention in respect of numbers of these residents of the Magdalen laundries.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is outlined in the details and statistics uncovered by Senator McAleese. However, Deputy McDonald should be aware it is not a single issue story. All 10,000 of the residents arrived in the Magdalen laundries through a variety of circumstances and for a variety of reasons-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ---- those Magdalen laundries was not removed over very many years when something could have been done about it.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: First of all, I want to thank Senator Martin McAleese, his assistant Ms Nuala Ní Mhuircheartaigh and the team involved in putting together the McAleese report into the Magdalen laundries. It is important to note that it was only in July last year that this Government initiated action to have such a report compiled and produced. Clearly, Deputy McDonald has not yet had an opportunity...
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: ...Orders, that (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and adjourn not later than 10 p.m.; and (2) No. 11a shall be decided without debate. Private Members’ business shall be No. 59, motion re Magdalene laundries (resumed), to conclude at 9 p.m., if not previously concluded.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: ...Orders, that (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and adjourn not later than 10 p.m.; and (2) No. 11a shall be decided without debate. Private Members’ business shall be No. 59, motion re Magdalene laundries (resumed), to conclude at 9 p.m., if not previously concluded.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: ...: (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn not later than 10 p.m.; (2) No. 11 shall be decided without debate; and Private Members’ business shall be No. 59, motion re Magdalene laundries.
- Inter-Faith Dialogue (4 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: ...that the examination would be completed as soon as possible. At the same time, there was a range of demands for the redress scheme to be extended to other categories such as psychiatric hospitals, Magdalene laundries, foster care, and mother and baby homes. While the possible inclusion of the Bethany Home could have been examined on the grounds that it operated as a children's home, other...
- Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (20 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: ...keepers of the church's light and goodness within their parishes, communities and the condition of the human heart. Thankfully for them and us, this is not Rome. Nor is it industrial school or Magdalene Ireland, where the swish of a soutane, smothered conscience and humanity and the swing of a thurible ruled the Irish Catholic world. This is the Republic of Ireland in 2011. It is a...