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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...Payment (Contributory) and (Non-Contributory) Illness Benefit* Invalidity Pension Jobseeker's Allowance* Jobseeker's Transitional Payment Magdalen Commission Scheme One-Parent Family Payment Partial Capacity Benefit Rural Social Scheme ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (28 Feb 2023)

Charles Flanagan: 535. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the steps he proposes to take to ensure healthcare provision for survivors of Magdalen laundries resident in Ireland is aligned with the HAA-standard care, as recommended by the Quirke report. [9473/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...an offence to tell any of the Deputies here the amount of money the person I represented got. That was in 2003 and we were supposed to learn from that experience. Fast forward ten years to 2013 and the advent of the issues relating to the Magdalen laundries. Did we learn? Did the High Court beg us to learn and to plan out the next scheme in a fair and just way? Did we what? Here we...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: ...Unfortunately, many of our young people ended up in addiction over the years. It began as way to escape poverty and trauma, sometimes to escape the multigenerational trauma of industrial schools, Magdalen laundries, and mother and baby homes. Drugs give people the ability to self-soothe and to give calm to an anxious inner world. They work until they stop working, and then the problems...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: However, earlier contributions fell short, including in the case of the Magdalen laundries scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (14 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Department of Social Protection is a payment provider for two redress schemes. The Department provides payments, on an agency basis, for The Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme. This scheme is administered by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. The Department of Social Protection is only the payment provider for the scheme and does not make...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Registration of Births (9 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Centre will stand as a site of conscience and will be designed to be an enduring and educational memorial to honour all those who were resident in Industrial Schools, Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalen Laundries and related institutions. The National Centre will be located on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry in Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin city centre and will have an inclusive,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

.... One of the most pervasive systems we have in Ireland today is that of institutionalisation and institutional thinking. Ireland has a long and sad history of institutionalisation, from workhouses to Magdalen laundries and psychiatric institutions to direct provision centres and congregated settings for disabled people. We have closed many institutions in Ireland in recent years and...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...No. 2, which we lost, we were setting out important criteria that would allow the scheme to be extended. I am fundamentally against the five-year limit. Another scheme - I think it was for the Magdalen laundries - was open for longer. Precedents have been set. We could also consider leaving the scheme open-ended. No justification has been given for the five-year duration. We are now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...place, even though the case was lost in court. Symphysiotomy is one example of that. The Government also decided to put in place compensation schemes in respect of mother and baby institutions, Magdalen laundries, mica, pyrite and apartment block defects, despite the fact that there was never a finding against the State with regard to those matters. What is the common good? The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...emotional well-being, and it is important that those supports are there, but these people have material needs as well that have not been fully addressed. The pension, which was provided to the Magdalen laundries survivors, is a huge issue for them. It would provide stability and a decent standard of income in their final years as well as housing and enhanced health care as was provided...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Commissions of Inquiry (18 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Centre will stand as a site of conscience and will be designed to be an enduring and educational memorial to honour all those who were resident in Industrial Schools, Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalen Laundries and related institutions. The National Centre will be located on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry in Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin city centre and will have an inclusive,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

.... We are proud of the fact that the team at Element and the talent we work with have helped contribute to that success. The films we have produced or co-produced over the years include "The Magdalene Sisters", "Adam & Paul", "Garage", "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", "The Guard", "The Lobster", "Room", "A Date for Mad Mary", "The Favourite", "Rosie", "Herself" and "The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...now in terms of the infrastructure. Fitzgibbon Street Garda station is the first community-focused Garda station in the whole country. It has been renovated and reopened to the highest standard. The Magdalen laundry on Seán McDermott Street, which was for so many people a symbol of such a dark past, is becoming a beacon for the future. We have so much to celebrate. We have much...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...Back to Work Family Dividend Disability Allowance Blind Pension Carer's Allowance Domiciliary Care Allowance Guardian's Payment (Non-Contributory) Magdalen Commission Scheme State Pension (Contributory) Widow(er)s' Surviving Civil Partners Pension (Contributory) ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (29 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 29 March last, the Government approved high-level proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance to be located on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin 1. The Centre will stand as a site of conscience, and will be a national memorial to honour equally all those who were resident in Mother and Baby Homes, Industrial Schools,...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...been quoted so often here today, you will see that we made it an offence for people to open their mouths about what they got as an award. We made criminals of them. We then moved forward to the Magdalen laundries redress scheme, the operation of which the Ombudsman described as "maladministration". We also set up Caranua and I repeat how inappropriately named it was. It was called "new...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (17 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 29 March last, the Government approved high-level proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance to be located on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin 1. The Centre will stand as a site of conscience, and will be a national memorial to honour equally all those who were resident in Mother and Baby Homes, Industrial Schools,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Priorities (17 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Remembrance. The National Centre will stand as a site of conscience and will be designed to be an enduring and educational memorial to honour all those who were resident in Industrial Schools, Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalen Laundries and related institutions. The National Centre will be located on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry in Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin city centre and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 435. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 20 October 2022, when a full reply will be issued. [56495/22]