Results 141-160 of 201 for magdalen speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: In that case, I assume there will not be legislation. When does the Taoiseach expect Mr. Justice Quirke to report back on the Magdalen redress scheme? Will he provide a date? Will he also clarify the reason that, notwithstanding certain indications he gave at the time, Summerhill in Wexford continues to be excluded from the terms of reference of the redress scheme? The Taoiseach...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Magdalene Fund/Commission will be placed on a statutory footing with independent statutory powers. [17152/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that are being put in place to enable women in institutionalised settings to engage with the Magdalene Fund/Commission; and if a guardian ad litem or independent advocate will be provided in all such cases as a way to further guarantee their rights. [17154/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to advertise the existence of the Magdalene Fund/Commission, as well as the requirement that women register with the Commission, in media outlets at home and abroad, in view of the lessons learned form the Residential Institutions Redress Board, where applicants living abroad came forward after the deadline claiming that they were...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will detail consequences of a survivor not registering with the Magdalene Fund/Commission during the three months of Mr Justice Quirke's review; and if they will be excluded from further engagment with the process. [17151/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to ensure that Magdalene grave records are accurate and up to date. [17155/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to ensure that there is access to Magdalene graves. [17156/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to ensure the upkeep of Magdalene graves. [17157/13]
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the next session, Justice Quirke will come back with proposals for a redress scheme in respect of the women of the Magdalen laundries. The Tánaiste is aware that when these matters were debated in the Dáil, the Government gave a commitment to consider the case of the Bethany Home and its inclusion in the redress scheme or in some manner of redress for its survivors. State...
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Cuirfidh Mr. Justice Quirke redress scheme do na Magdalen laundries os comhair an Rialtais agus os comhair na Dála i gceann cúpla mí. Cén fáth nach bhfuil Summerhill ar liosta na hinstitiúidí atá á scrúdú ag Mr. Justice Quirke? Cén fáth nach bhfuil aon fhreagra faighte againn go fóill i dtaobh an Bethany Home?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (5 Mar 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the decision to establish an ex gratia scheme with regards to the Magdalene Laundry fund, which is in effect a payment without an admission of liability, conflicts with the Taoiseach's apology to the surviving women on behalf of the State for their incarceration. [11047/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Magdalen Laundry redress mechanism will be placed on a statutory footing. [10700/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Magdalen Laundry redress mechanism will include an independent appeals mechanism. [10701/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if surviving women wishing to avail of legal representation, for example women who wish to remain anonymous, that this will be allowed within the Magdalen Laundry redress mechanism. [10702/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it his intention to withhold access to redress from surviving women of the Magdalene Laundries who have previously received supports from the Residential Institutions Redress Board for abuses suffered whilst in an industrial school. [10704/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons the Magdalen Laundry review terms of reference refer only to women who are now resident in Britain; and if surviving women who now reside outside Ireland and Britain will be able to access the Magdalen Laundry fund. [10703/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the formal action he will take to ensure the religious orders are brought to account for their role in the Magdalene Laundries abuse. [10705/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will include the survivors of Bethany Home in the Magdalen Laundry redress mechanism noting the principle of due diligence which provides that where State authorities knew of actual human rights abuses by non-State actor as recorded for example during State inspections of Bethany under the Registration of Maternity Homes Act and failed to...
- Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's welcome apology on behalf of the State was long overdue. The Magdalen women have waited, hoped and prayed for this moment. Many of them despaired that it might never come, but it has. Today saw a full acknowledgement of the wrong done to them. They were wronged. The State was complicit in their detention and abuse in the laundries. It oversaw a system of slave labour,...
- Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...journalism, most notably that of the late Mary Raftery, the inquiries into industrial schools, the diligence of human rights activists and advocacy groups and, above all, the immense bravery of Magdalen women and their families put the truth on the record. We have known of the trauma endured by women and girls for some time. The 2009 Ryan report made an explicit reference to the abuse...