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- Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Shame on the Minister of State.
- Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Shame on the Minister of State. Who wrote this? Was it the Minister, Deputy Shatter?
- Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: As were the Magdalen laundries. Does the Minister of State remember that?
- Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Having read the Government amendment, I find what the Minister of State has said difficult to take.
- Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister of State knows that, which is why she is reacting in this manner. She knows what should and must be done. She knows these people deserve recognition, that their case should be set out to the gaze of the public, that they are due an apology and that they should never have been excluded from State redress. The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, knows that, and no words on...
- Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I look forward to her remarks.
- Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move:That Dáil Éireann:accepts that Bethany Home, Rathgar (1922 – 1972) was a maternity home, a children’s home 1959 and a place of detention for women on remand or convicted of crimes referred by the courts; further accepts that Bethany Home was subject to inspection under the Registration of Maternity Homes Act 1934; recognises the State’s failure to...
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Give over. Answer the question.
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Apparently not, but the Minister is just the sensitive soul of this Chamber.
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 73. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will establish, fund, staff and accommodate a small dedicated unit charged to provide the following services for eligible Magdalen women as recommended by Mr. Justice Quirke and if this unit will publish quarterly reports on its work: a help-line accessible daily by the women to assist them to obtain the health, monetary and other...
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: On 7 November last, the Minister announced that the Cabinet had agreed details of the implementation of the Quirke scheme for women who had been in Magdalen laundries. However, the announcement at the time only dealt with monetary payments, which the women still await, with no mention of the other strands of Mr. Justice Quirke's recommendations. My question asks about those other strands,...
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thought the Minister might give that answer. Obviously, the applications must be processed, but it is now ten months since the Taoiseach made the apology to the survivors of these laundries. Many of the survivors are asking whether they will ever see their redress. Two of the women concerned have died, sadly, without seeing a red cent, much less the support services promised under the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Law Reform Proposals (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has no interest in the truth.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to implement all recommendations contained within the Magdalene Commission report as prepared by Mr. Justice Quirke in May 2012 on the establishment of an ex gratia scheme and related matters for the benefit of those women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen laundries; the date on which legislation to provide enhanced...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 456. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she intends to amend the Adoption Act 2010; and if these amendments will be published before the end of the current year. [52482/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 464. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the application for national lottery funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied)and when they may expect a decision. [52972/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 467. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who applied for a medical card renewal in July 2013 has not yet received a decision on the matter. [52471/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: On a scale of one to ten, how confident is Professor McHale about a growth projection of 2% for 2014?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: On a scale of one to ten, that is the range within which Professor McHale can indicate his endorsement in terms of a growth projection.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that a five?