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Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: We in Sinn Féin believe the direct provision system is not acceptable for anybody and should be brought to an end without delay. This system is beneficial to nobody, least of all children. It institutionalises people, damages mental health, denies families privacy and forces a lack of work on them. People living under direct provision are forced by the State to live in inhumane...

Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Some of the survivors of mother and baby homes who were outside the Dáil gates earlier this morning were in the Visitors Gallery for Leaders' Questions. I acknowledge their presence. We were supposed to have the terms of reference for the inquiry before the summer recess. We were then told we would see the terms of reference in September. We are still waiting as September draws to a...

Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Could the Tánaiste shed some light on the issue of the interdepartmental report in respect of the mother and baby homes and the timeline around its completion if it is not yet complete? When can we expect its publication and when will we see the terms of reference for the commission of investigation into those matters? I raised the matter yesterday with the Taoiseach and appealed to...

Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about the mother and baby home inquiry?

Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am seeking the terms of reference for the commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes.

Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the Magdalen women, of course. Can the Taoiseach give a date for the introduction of that legislation? Will he also say when we will see the terms of reference for the commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes? As he is aware, we were due to see them before the recess, but they did not materialise, and there has now been a change of Minister. Everybody concerned, including the...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also extend a warm welcome to members of the deaf community in the Visitors Gallery. They are very welcome and it is great to see an interpreter in the Gallery for the first time. I had intended to raise a different issue with the Tánaiste concerning mother and baby homes but, having heard her entirely limp and lily-livered response to Deputy McConalogue's question on Gaza, I feel I...

Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that on Thursday next there are to be statements on the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. Will the Tánaiste confirm for the House that the terms of reference of the commission of investigation will be brought to the House on Thursday? Will she confirm that they will be comprehensive and that no institution, victim or survivor will be left out and...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will time be set aside for the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, to make a statement to the Dáil on the resignation last night of the chairman of the West and North-West Hospitals Group, Mr. Noel Daly, and the serious conflict of interest arising from the Minister's original appointment of Mr. Daly as chairman of the group? In respect of the commission of investigation...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is appropriate to begin my remarks by applauding the women and men who have campaigned for many long years to achieve recognition of what happened in institutions across this country - recognition of the abusive and degrading treatment suffered by women and their children in mother and baby homes, county homes, children's homes, orphanages, Magdalen laundries and beyond. The idea of...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (10 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ago during April, we gathered in Mount Jerome Cemetery to unveil a memorial stone to the 219 children who had died in the Bethany Home in Rathgar. The level of distress experienced by survivors and their families at that gathering was something to behold. At that stage, the Government and the State had adopted the position that there would be no dealing with mother and baby homes and...

Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have two matters. The Minister last took Leaders' Questions on 3 April and, on that occasion, I raised the issue of the Bethany Home with him. He will recall that the previous day, 2 April, a memorial stone had been unveiled to the more than 200 infants and children who died in that mother and baby home in Rathgar. At that point, the Minister committed to contacting the then Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Minister for Education and Skills, his party and the Government voted full confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality. It is clear that they all believe the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, to be a reforming, progressive and just Minister despite the series of debacles over which he has presided. The issues around the administration of justice and...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: One of the Taoiseach's Ministers has prepared a memorandum of understanding to be signed by the Irish Insurance Federation. It falls short of a legislative remedy for those families that cannot get insurance for their homes, but I welcome the Taoiseach's sentiment expressed here today that perhaps when that legislation is introduced, the matter of some form of State guarantee or fund for...

Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fortunately, that is not the case. The Government says that mother and baby homes are excluded from redress. We have noted the exception of St. Patrick's Home on Navan Road. I query the rationale for this State excluding mother and baby homes. I go further and say there is a great need for us to uncover and put the full glare of public understanding on precisely what happened in mother...

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...

Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...from that commitment. I want to know what is going on. It is not a subject of amusement. The Taoiseach has the information in terms of what happened in the Bethany Home. As he knows, it was a mother and baby home.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...but I will not. I want to raise two matters with the Minister, the first of which is the Bethany Home. Many Members are aware of what happened in Bethany Home, Rathgar, the suffering of women and children in the home and the existence of a mass grave in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross. The Taoiseach gave a commitment on 25 June that, within two weeks, the Government would make a...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are all aware that Bethany Home is a different scenario from the Magdalen laundries because it was a mother and baby home but they share one core similarity and that is the ongoing delay by Government in delivering justice to the survivors and victims. I cannot understand how the Taoiseach can stand up here and say that the Minister is still considering, cogitating and pondering Bethany...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (27 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home, Navan Road, Dublin was added to the institutions covered by the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme by Statutory Order No. 518 of 2005. [10707/13]