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Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (25 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...2009, is still empty. The Department is now completing a geophysical survey and we do not know its results. There is an intimate connection between this institution and the mother and baby home in Tuam. In the course of the Magdalen inquiry under then Senator McAleese, a great deal of information emerged. I have highlighted this to the Minister before now. Many Deputies were given...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...estimated it would cost €20 per week. All the Minister did this year was set up a study that will cost €300,000. However, I welcome the increase in the home carer tax credit from €1,200 to €1,500. I also welcome sections 5 and 6 with regard to compensation payments for the victims of the Magdalen laundries and others and benefit-in-kind relief for our...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (23 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: ...the amount in excess of €50,000. Under section 14, I propose amending section 205A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to extend the same tax treatment for awards under the restorative justice process to women who were resident in institutions associated with the Magdalen laundries. Section 15 is a technical amendment, while section 16 introduces new accelerated capital...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...Cabinet accepted her recommendations today. I would like to give the Minister the opportunity to outline her recommendations in detail at 3 p.m. when she is able to do so. With regard to the Magdalen redress scheme, the Government's intention is to comply with and implement the Ombudsman's recommendations on the scheme, which is to extend the scheme to a wider group of women who did...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Lisa Chambers: ...that women in this country have made in that period, the debate on abortion has forced us to look back over a long and dark history when women suffered terribly. If we look at the atrocities of the Magdalene laundries, the Tuam mother and baby home and other homes, we realise that it was not so long ago. That was the very recent past. I think that we have actually reached a critical...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...on Seán McDermott Street. That capital project is long overdue. Other major projects include the Rutland Street school, which is to be a multipurpose facility with a community base for the area; the Magdalen convent and its grounds; and the magnificent but dilapidated Aldborough House, which I understand is subject to separate planning. When will we see these projects taking shape?...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (16 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions he has taken to implement recommendation No. 6 of the Magdalen commission report (details supplied). [42274/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: ...years ahead offer many opportunities for policing in Ireland. I am allocating, therefore, an additional €60 million in current expenditure to the broader justice sector to: provide additional asylum accommodation; widen the Magdalen scheme; fund reforms within the Department of Justice and Equality and the Courts Service; address pressures on criminal legal aid and in prisons, and...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in their totality. Let us make sure the needed resources are provided more broadly for women's health. We have had CervicalCheck, symphysiotomy, Portiuncula Hospital, the Tuam mother and baby home and the Magdalen laundries. Scandal after scandal in healthcare in this country has related to women's health and, in the main, to women's reproductive health. It must stop. Let us also...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Relations Contracts Expenditure (2 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...€3,800.70 Anti-Human Trafficking - Blue blindfold campaign materials LogoPrint 13 August 2018 €1,003.68 PR Consultancy (professional fee) [Jun ’18 – Jul ‘18] Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland Drury Porter Novelli 01 September 2018 €37,945.81 Media buying services for National Awareness Campaign on Domestic Violence PHD Media...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...have passed since the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was established and its timeline for reporting has been extended to February 2019. We know from the industrial homes and the Magdalen laundry scandals that the State moves at a glacial pace in providing redress and access to supports and services when it finally accepts wrongdoing. Survivors of the home need...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Maureen O'Sullivan: My experiences come from knowing and being with the ladies from the Magdalen laundries. Common among them is the sense of hurt, physical, mental and emotional, which they experienced. In the case of the Magdalen laundry ladies, the main concern is their ages and the timeframe in terms of progressing their issues in a speedy way. I understand the need for balance between indepth study and...

Seanad: Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage - An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim (20 Sep 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: .... This hand in glove relationship prevented public accountability of both State and church and this unaccountability space was filled with scandals such as child abuse and its cover up, mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries, industrial schools and the list could go on. This amendment, like the marriage equality and abortion reform amendments, is a step towards a new Ireland, a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2018)

Katherine Zappone: ...Home, originally Blackhall Place, Dublin 7 and from 1934 Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6; 5. Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, Co. Galway; 6. Denny House, Eglington Rd, Dublin 4, originally Magdalen Home, 8 Lower Leeson St, Dublin 2; 7.Kilrush, Cooraclare Rd, Co. Clare; 8. Manor House, Castlepollard, Co Westmeath; 9. Ms. Carr’s (Flatlets), 16 Northbrook Rd, Dublin 6; 10. Regina...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Sep 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of people. For the sake of writers such as James Joyce whose literature was banned in the newly founded State because of this morality and these notions of blasphemy and, more seriously, the Magdalene women, those who suffered in mother and baby homes, the Tuam babies, children who were separated from their mothers, those who were the victims of forced adoptions, LGBT people generally who...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Urban Renewal Schemes (11 Jul 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...groups to scope out space requirement for the new facility. The city council is also engaging with the community and local councillors on the sale and redevelopment of the convent lands at the former Magdalen laundry on Sean McDermott Street. The proposed plans are for a hotel on the site as well as housing units, which could be designated for older people, and would bring much needed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (11 Jul 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Jan O'Sullivan: 190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW plans to carry out a clean-up operation to remove overgrown vegetation at the site of Magdalene Tower, Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31203/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (10 Jul 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Clare Daly: 960. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the former Magdalen laundry on Sean McDermott Street will be prevented from being sold to private persons for use as a hotel as a first step in developing a place to be used in a manner which would benefit the community and that would recognise the history of the site. [30034/18]

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Marie Louise O'Donnell: ...way institutions, establishments and people have treated them under the auspices of the State. However, those apologies seem very weak when it comes to something like this Bill. Let us consider the Magdalen laundries, the mother and baby homes, the industrial schools, the county homes and the adoption agencies. There should be a place for them in the National Archives. I will not be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (4 Jul 2018)

Simon Harris: ...community health services (and benefits) in Ireland for women who qualify under the Department of Justice & Equality Restorative Justice Scheme for women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalene Laundries and similar institutions. The RWRCI Act provides a statutory basis to grant a 2015A card to women who qualify under this Act. It therefore provides a statutory...