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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Advocacy Service (16 Jun 2020)

Charles Flanagan: My Department has responsibility for the Magdalen Restorative Justice Implementation Unit, which was established to administer the Magdalen Ex-Gratia Scheme. This involves the processing of applications to the Scheme, the payment of the ex-gratia awards to eligible applicants and the transmission of relevant details to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commemorative Events (13 May 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...the institutions and their life following discharge from the institutions. Since the publication of the Ryan Report many other pathways to Institutionalisation have been disclosed including Magdalen Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. While there are currently no specific plans for a National Day for survivors of abuse in the institutions scheduled in the Residential...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (10 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered broadening the terms of the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme for those who were resident in one of the 14 adjoining institutions to include men who were young boys at the time and lived and worked with their sisters in the Magdalen institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...a view to advising the Government on medium to long-term service provision. There are a number of other areas in the Vote where there are overspends and underspends and they are set out in the Supplementary Estimate briefing provided to the committee. The overspends primarily relate to a number of the administrative subheads, including salaries and ICT, criminal legal aid, the Magdalen...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Magdalen Laundries (3 Dec 2019)

Noel Rock: 643. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding is available for the development of a Magdalen laundries museum on Séan McDermott Street, Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49799/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of infants in emergency accommodation are unable to learn to crawl, chew or speak or to have anything like a normal developmental pathway, that is criminal abuse and child abuse. It is the Magdalen laundries of the 21st century waiting to happen. If it continues, we will be looking at redress schemes such as those we saw for the women and girls of the Magdalen laundries. It is utterly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Retention of Records Bill 2019: Discussion (26 Nov 2019) See 5 other results from this debate

...being denied a copy of their own transcript of evidence, as well as their own personal records that the commission holds of the death and burial of family members. As for the McAleese committee’s State records relating to the Magdalen laundries, the Department of the Taoiseach is currently holding that entire archive secret, claiming it is holding it for safekeeping and not for the...

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: ...This is absolute madness, but also very dangerous. On direct provision, the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, MASI, has described direct provision as a shame on Ireland, comparable to the Magdalen Laundries. When direct provision was introduced, it was claimed that it was meant to be a temporary measure for six months. If that was the case, it might be tolerable. The average...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

...needs to look at the issue of reparations. We have to acknowledge this injustice as we have acknowledged the injustice committed upon the women who were institutionalised in such places as the Magdalen laundries. A total of 60 years of State-sponsored denial of Traveller identity and culture has not only impacted on their educational attainment but has created an internalised oppression,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (5 Nov 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: ...für behinderte Menschen; - income which has arisen to an individual as a result of the investment of a relevant payment within the meaning of such under section 205A, which is generally payments relating to the Magdalen Laundries. The investment undertaking must deduct the exit tax in the normal manner, but the individual or trust may be entitled to a repayment of the exit tax. The...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: .... Section 6 extends an exemption from tax for payments made to compensate individuals for expenses incurred in the donation of a kidney to also include those who donate a lobe of a liver. Section 7 makes a technical amendment to the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme. Sections 8 to 10 deal with SARP, KEEP and FED. Section 11 seeks to maintain the status quofor qualifying UK...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (23 Oct 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...He cared fundamentally about people. That was his innate skill. Many people will not be aware of the following, so I will share it with the House. Feargal employed many people who came from the Magdalen laundries in south County Dublin. He took a particular interest in the people who grew up in Madonna House in Stillorgan. I think of one particular woman, whom I will call Lily. He...

Child Maintenance: Motion (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...is the so-called economic upturn? The only conclusion I can come to is that the State has not come to terms with its shame in respect of lone parents, shame that lingers from the time of the Magdalen laundries, from when divorce was illegal and from when children outside marriage were shunned. We should now address our sense of shame about nearly 250,000 people in this country once and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (3 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...; €235,269  17  €383,058  29  €618,328  Mortgage Interest Supplement  12  €193,296  11  €226,182  23  €419,478  Disablement Benefit  15  €474,669  5  €106,173  20  €580,842  Rent Allowance  7  €117,742 ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Josepha Madigan: ...of Ireland's strategic plan for 2019 to 2022 was launched in early March, and an exhibition by the Down-based artist Alison Lowry, which was an artistic response to the Tuam mother and baby home, the Magdalen laundries, and domestic violence, was also launched in March. As part of the Traveller's Journey exhibition, the Department of Education and Skills has collaborated with our...

Status of History in the Framework for Junior Cycle: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...and the Kennedy family plot. It leaves a visual and emotional impact on young people. We also have an obligation to teach our young people about the dark side of our history, including the mistreatment of women, including those confined to Magdalen laundries, our State’s discrimination against those who did not fit in because they were Travellers, gay, non-religious or unionist,...

Special Needs Education Places: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: ...again - and I am sick of hearing myself saying this, so I am sure that everybody else is sick of it too - that we have consistently failed children in the State. We all know the stories of the industrial homes and the Magdalen laundries and yet here we are failing children again. I believe that 20 or 30 years down the road everybody will wonder, "How did we let this happen?" We are...

Seanad: Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...and shameful history of collusion between church and State authorities that has manifested in the oppression of women and children from disadvantaged backgrounds, notably in industrial schools, Magdalen institutions and so forth. As we have seen in recent votes, not only in the blasphemy referendum but in the referenda on marriage equality and repeal of the eight amendment last year, we...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (6 Sep 2019)

Heather Humphreys: ..., Dundalk Co. Louth 50-100 XEROX (EUROPE) LIMITED Xerox Technology Park, Dublin Road Dundalk Co Louth 250-300 SMT FUND SERVICES (IRELAND) LIMITED Finnabair Business & Technology Park, Dundalk Co. Louth 50-100 MTI MERCHANDISING TECHNOLOGIES IRELAND LIMITED 9-33 Magdalene street, Ballsgrove Drogheda 50-100 GRAEBEL IRELAND Ground Floor Building 3 Dundalk 50-100...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Data (6 Sep 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 1027. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on the provision of services specified under Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 in each year since its initiation; and the number of women that have benefited from the section of the Act in each year in tabular form. [35769/19]