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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Magdalen Laundries (10 Feb 2021)

Charles Flanagan: 240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 20 October 2020, if guidelines as a consequence of the report by the Ombudsman on the Magdalene laundry scheme have been completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6371/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (28 Jan 2021)

Gary Gannon: 184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applicants per year under the Magdalen restorative redress scheme since 2015; the number of survivors who have successfully obtained the 2015A medical card; the effectiveness of the redress scheme as it pertains to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4972/21]

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ..., 2015". A quick scan of the contents page of that submission shows that we have much work to do. Chapters cover access to rural broadband; collective complaint to the European Committee of Social Rights; Magdalen laundries; the national women's strategy; employment legislation; the national minimum wage; exempted categories of employees under the national minimum wage; comparisons...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (27 Jan 2021)

Gary Gannon: 542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide victims and survivors of the Magdalene Laundries a full HAA card for public and private services as was one of the recommendations within the Magdalen Commission Report in 2013. [3202/21]

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (Resumed) (26 Jan 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...commission of investigation into mother and baby homes has reopened many difficult memories and caused enormous upset and re-traumatisation. Today, the report into the mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries in the North has been published. I have no doubt this will be a very emotional and difficult time for survivors again. I put on record my admiration for survivors' bravery,...

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...this comparison - where mask-wearing can be enforced and those who are working in schools. While I am on the subject, there is no comparison between people who work in schools and those who ran Magdalen laundries and mother and baby institutions and to draw that comparison was both offensive and hurtful to teachers who had been in touch with me and to SNAs, school secretaries and others...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021) See 3 other results from this debate

Cormac Devlin: ...' stories in this report and in the investigation must be made available to them. The report considers a number of institutions, some of which operated in my own constituency of Dún Laoghaire, including the Magdalen laundry at St. Patrick’s refuge, Crofton Road, which operated until the 1960s when it became St. Michael’s Hospital and convalescent home, the Cottage...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (19 Jan 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...on the many reports we have seen over the years and on the extent of abuses of human rights of women and children they have exposed. There have been reports into abuse in industrial schools and Magdalen laundries. In the report under discussion, there are references to country homes as well as mother and baby homes. We are aware of psychiatric institution confinement. We know that for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Gary Gannon: ...took place in the Chamber yesterday, today might be a good day to highlight promises in previous State apologies that are as yet unfulfilled. I refer in particular to the apology to survivors of Magdalen laundries in 2013 and the recommendations from Mr. Justice Quirke's commission that have yet to be implemented. Previously, I raised recommendation 6 relating to memorialisation, but...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021) See 3 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...in industrial and reformatory schools for boys. Girls and boys suffered emotional abuse on a great scale. In 2009, we had the Murphy report; in 2011, we had the Cloyne report; and in 2013, we had the Magdalen report of an interdepartmental committee, following by a review under Mr. Justice Quirke and the establishment of an ex gratiascheme, which was subsequently found by the Ombudsman...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Dec 2020)

John Cummins: ...its role in reducing fuel poverty, but I wish to refer to a certain case I have encountered in respect of it. According to the Department's webpage on income disregards for the fuel allowance, payments such as the Magdalen commission scheme payments, ex gratia payments for personal injuries suffered in the Stardust fire and compensation for people who have contracted hepatitis C are all...

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: Historically, the State is all about secrets. We have had mother and baby homes, industrial schools, Magdalen laundries and the hush-hush trips to England. Domestic violence is one of the last unmentionable secrets. Men get hammered too, but for them it is usually even more secret. It is mostly women who get and take their beatings, and the threats, the kicks, the punches, the burning,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Dec 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ....  Any payment made by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is also disregarded for social welfare means test purposes.  In addition, ex gratia payments made to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries, or through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme, or payments made by the Minister of Health in accordance with recommendations proposed by the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Dec 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...Enterprise Allowance, Back to Education Allowance (over four months), Community Employment, Rural Social Scheme, TÚS, Gateway and Job Initiative; - Supplementary Welfare Allowance (over 15 months), Daily Expenses Allowance (over 15 months), Magdalene Commission Scheme; - On an exceptional basis this year, recipients of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment and equivalent recipients of...

Mental Health Parity of Esteem Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: ...across this city and State we see people living with the consequences of what happened to them and what was done to them, all too often sometimes by the State. We had mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries, industrial schools, hubs, hostels, soup runs and people living and dying in tents. A mother in my constituency was afraid to complain about HAP-funded, rat-infested accommodation...

Combating Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...refuge in the immediate situation and support for women and children. There are 63 organisations listed by the Minister’s Department who receive funding. It is a bit reminiscent of the Magdalen institutions where the State is wiping its hands. This should be a fundamental role of State services without the reliance on charities. Nine out of 26 counties have no refuge. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Brian Stanley: ...;300,000. My concern is that the legislation to wind down Caranua could come before the House quickly. The sum of €110 million was provided by the religious congregations for the survivors of the Magdalen laundries and the other institutions. We do not want Caranua to be wound down while cases have still to be resolved. That is the concern. Whoever wishes to contribute can do so.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...It is coming to an end but we will have a look at it. I am talking to the Minister for Education about that. Deputy McDonald asked about records relating to the mother and baby homes and the Magdalen laundries. Access to the commission's archive is governed by the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 rather than the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the number of subject access requests his Department has received annually in relation to the report of the interdepartmental committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries from 2013 to date; the number of these requests denied year on year for the same period, in tabular form; and the additional data protection expertise his Department will secure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: ...available for study. The plays Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan and Tribes by Nina Raine and the novel The Lauras by Sara Taylor explore the experiences of marginalised groups, namely women in the Magdalene laundries, the deaf community and transgender teenagers. The classic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley offers significant scope to explore the concept of othering in society and...