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Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Data (3 Jul 2018)

James Browne: 293. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reason survivors of the Magdalen laundries cannot receive the podiatry services they require owing to their county of residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28844/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Papal Visit (27 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...engagement? Outside of theology, what discussions will the Taoiseach have with the Pope and what matters does he intend to raise with him? Does he propose to raise the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and all of those experiences? Does he intend to raise the fact that so many victims and survivors feel very let down by church authorities? I raise these matters very...

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Jun 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: ...the religious orders, private agencies and dioceses throughout the country. We need some truth-telling in that regard. Every day, the House hears about mother and baby homes, adoption agencies, Magdalen laundries and those who were incarcerated in industrial schools. The persons concerned want access to their records and they have a right to access them. Telling the truth is part of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (27 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the medical card provision to survivors of the Magdalen laundries; the scope of its cover; the services it does not provide for; the similar provisions that apply in other cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28215/18]

Seanad: 25th Anniversary of Decriminalisation of Homosexuality: Motion (19 Jun 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ...work on this initiative. I also thank the Government for facilitating this motion. State apologies represent significant moments for this institution and the people it serves. I recall today the women of the Magdalen laundries and the survivors of those laundries who received an apology from former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, on behalf of the State in February 2013 and, also, the State...

Independent Clinical Review of Maternity Services at Portiuncula University Hospital: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: ...fantastic work every day of our doctors, nurses, midwives and everyone else involved. When it comes to women’s health and the control of women’s bodies, however, this State has a dark past - the Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes, symphysiotomy, forced adoptions and falsified birth certificates. The list goes on and on. Now added to that list is what happened at...

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Katherine Zappone: ...survivor centred and designed with the needs and the hopes of survivors in mind. It may be time to consider a scope. We are living in a present that is still attempting to respond appropriately to the Magdalen laundries, the mother and baby homes and this adoption illegality issues. We may need to reckon with our national history of gender and justice, inclusive of the ways in which it...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: ...'s predecessor, the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Coveney, there were no new homes, no children playing, no builders, no diggers, no hoarding and no construction. There was nothing. Down the road from that the Magdalen laundry site in Sean MacDermott Street is another example of the State's lack of commitment and ambition to deliver affordable homes. It is a 2 acre site less than half a...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Magdalen Laundries (13 Jun 2018)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Jim O'Callaghan: ...for their attendance. I commend him on one issue which he has not mentioned. This committee had, for a long while, advocated that the Minister abide by the recommendations in respect of the Magdalen laundries made by the Ombudsman and in the reports prepared previously by Mr. Justice Quirke. I acknowledge that the Minister ultimately followed the recommendations of the Ombudsman and he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ and DAA: Chairpersons Designate (13 Jun 2018)

...Campaign to assist the vulnerable and elderly Irish community in Britain. We focused particularly on helping the survivors of institutional abuse who now live in Britain, especially women from the Magdalen laundries. I was honoured to do that work and to support those women. My reasons for applying for the role as chairman of DAA are straightforward. First, DAA plays an increasingly...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Ivana Bacik: I commend all those involved in the wonderful ceremony last week, Dublin Honours Magdalenes. It was uplifting to see it after such shabby treatment of so many women for so long by the State, other institutions and, in many cases, by individual families. It was good and positive to see such a great welcome for the Magdalenes by Dublin's Lord Mayor, as well as other aspects of civic and...

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Bríd Smith: ...country since the foundation of the State. Since 1983, we have learned a great deal with the exposure of all of the scandals around the treatment of women and children in institutions like the Magdalen laundries and the Tuam mother and baby home. However, we still have a great deal to learn about how we treat women's health. We need to bring closure quickly to the questions of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Barriers to Education Facing Vulnerable Groups: Discussion (29 May 2018)

...to look at the issue of reparations. We must acknowledge this injustice, as we have acknowledged the injustices that was perpetrated on the women who were institutionalised in such places as the Magdalen laundries. Fifty years of State-sponsored denial of Traveller identity and culture has not only impacted on educational attainment but also has created an internalised oppression,...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and for fixing our broken adoption system, supports and rights for those with a disability, support for addressing the legacies of inequality in our pension system and experienced by those in the Magdalen laundries. This is collective work in which I hope all of us will be able to engage to ensure the women of Ireland are supported fully and given all of the best options with all of the...

Leaders' Questions (22 May 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...knows, as has been the case with so many other redress schemes, such as the symphysiotomy redress scheme - which I was involved in putting together - or the scheme we put in place for women who were residents in the Magdalen laundries, it is necessary in all cases that there be evidence. Redress is made based on evidence and that is the basis on which we are operating into the future. I...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...misleading and false and messaging that is untruthful and makes a mockery of women's lives and the deeply divisive and difficult choices they must often make. We want to move away from the legacy of the Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes in Tuam and elsewhere, the shaming and stigmatising of women and the wholesale export and outsourcing of women's healthcare to Britain and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (16 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...the legal age for marriage, past illegal adoptions and children's rights in general. During our discussions in private session earlier, we also referred to the issues of mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and survivors of same in order that Ms de Boer-Buquiccio be made aware of the work the work we are doing here in Ireland to address historical issues and to get redress for...

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...to pay compensation for the abuse she endured as a pupil. Many elderly women who were victims of symphysiotomy are still fighting for truth and compensation. Let us not forget the women victims of the Magdalen laundries or the mother and baby homes, or Savita Halappanavar and countless others. We must also recall that the State forces many victims, particularly women, of anomalies,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

...were often over-inclusive and included people with learning disabilities, people with mental health needs, people who were socially different and people who were graduates of orphanages and Magdalen laundries. We had a great fondness for institutional care. The pendulum has now swung in the opposite direction and we have gone from having the world's highest bed to population ratio to one...