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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all know that this State has a very long history. We had a society that was built around not giving adequate powers or protections to women and, beyond that, actually oppressing them. I accept that a significant number of legacy issues have fallen into the Minister's in-tray. I assume that others did not want to deal with them. We are at the point of redress and we all accept and...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...State that has been far from what we would like it to have been. I will quote the Minister, who said, "What happened at Tuam is a stain on our national conscience." That is what happened at Tuam and in all the various mother and baby homes with the incarceration and treatment of women and children. At Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey and in all the various institutions, the State failed to...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: This was another incredibly difficult week for survivors and their families. We know that many of them are beyond disappointed and are angry about this report. We can talk about the societal and individual failures regarding the hellhole system of mother and baby homes, but we need to stress that churches failed their people. They were given this power by a State and a political system...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: This has already been put far more eloquently than I can put it by some of my colleagues over the past couple of hours. The stories that have been told are absolutely heartbreaking. Mother and baby homes are part of a long history in this State. Not only did we fail women and children but we also set up structures that attacked them, sold them, neglected them, abused them and much more....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Oct 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31380/20]