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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jun 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: 345. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding allocated to the Magdalen restorative justice ex-gratia scheme; the number of applications approved and paid to date; the average payment; the number of in progress applications; the number of applications that are ineligible; the number of applications appealed; the number of applications awaiting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Younger People in Nursing Homes: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

...will make some remarks in summary. As Ombudsman, much of the work of my office has involved dealing with matters of institutionalisation and congregation, whether they were the consequences of the Magdalen laundries and the redress scheme, direct provision or, as in this case, the situation of younger people in nursing homes. Institutionalisation and congregation have been a theme...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Gary Gannon: ...the shoulders of people who came before us and suffered a substantial oppression and showed courage beyond what they should have to, in terms of contraceptive trains and those who were incarcerated in Magdalen laundries, suffered the horrors of the asylums and were kept in mother and baby homes. Those legacies are still there. That pain is still there and we will not concede. Do we...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (22 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make funds available to ensure the preservation of Ireland’s last Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in order that it may be a site of conscience and truth-telling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33556/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...Religious Sisters of Charity say they have gifted the St. Vincent's Hospital site to the people of Ireland. I ask if the people of Ireland are obliged to accept a gift from nuns who were involved in the Magdalen laundries, in mother and baby homes and in running a hospital that refused to provide sterilisation, vasectomy or any reproductive rights to women and men. They can take their...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...trust the State and the Department of Health with the record they have on reproductive healthcare and women's rights. It is absolutely appalling, whether we start with the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries, the X case, Savita Halappanavar, the A, B, C and Y cases, women being forced abroad, the symphysiotomy and CervicalCheck scandals or vaginal mesh surgeries. You name it...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (26 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...opens further, we will see a lot of people who will take up employment and return to work. In respect of miscellaneous services, that expenditure includes ex gratiapayments to women from the Magdalen laundries and other institutions, a small rent allowance scheme for people affected by the de-control of rents and information grants. The food aid programme under the Fund for European...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...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 Scoping Inquiry into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

...particular in the Dóchas Centre and Limerick Prison about how they ended up there. Their stories are of trauma, abuse, neglect, being in care and their children being in care. We speak about the Magdalen laundries and this is it all over again, not just for Traveller women but for so many women in prison. We need to put the spotlight on them. Unfortunately, many of them are so...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (11 May 2021)

Charles Flanagan: 873. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is appropriate in respect of the redress scheme applicable to women who resided in Magdalene laundries that a person (details supplied) having waited a period of four years for a cataract operation was required to pay a sum of money to obtain such treatment; if he will investigate same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Eligibility for a Household Benefit Package would be a matter for my colleague the Minister for Social Protection. As part of the package of wide-ranging health related supports for Magdalen Laundry Survivors, eligible participants do not have to pay the statutory emergency department charge or the public hospital in-patient statutory charge. These exemptions mean that the eligible women...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Matt Carthy: ...system has failed utterly those who have sought asylum and also local host communities. I was struck recently in listening to recollections of those who were in mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries by how similar some of these were to the reports we have received up to today from residents in direct provisions. There are stories of an uncaring system where human beings are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (14 Apr 2021) See 3 other results from this debate

...; and with me, he is a member of the three-person panel appointed to advise Northern Ireland's Ministers on the most appropriate form of investigation and inquiry into the mother and baby and Magdalen institutions. Together, we co-authored with nine other academic practitioner and survivor authors our written submission which the committee has. Turning now to the proposed legislation,...

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...person on the street? As we engage in that question, it will incorporate conversations about how we handed control over to the church and all of the hideous things that came from that, including the Magdalen laundries, institutions and asylums. All of those things must be included when we have a true narrative of our history. I want to talk about what Moore Street and the market...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Lou McDonald: ...system to which Irish women, unmarried women, poor women, young women, vulnerable women, pregnant women, mothers and their children were subjected for generations. The scandalous abuse of women in Magdalen laundries and in mother and baby homes is matched only by the mistreatment of their babies and their children. The remains of infant children in a septic tank in Tuam, or in the clay...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Mar 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...has held two meetings to date and will consider the provision of financial recognition, as well as the provision of a form of enhanced medical card similar to that provided to former residents of Magdalene Laundries. The Commission of Investigation made recommendations in relation to those who might qualify for such schemes, however, the considerations of the IDG are not necessarily...

Committee on Public Petitions: Irish Ombudsman Forum: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

...the various ombudsman offices and the public services in our jurisdiction is good and the Oireachtas has been good in the way that it has supported our recommendations. I give the example of the Magdalen laundry redress scheme, where the Oireachtas played a critical part in making sure that the scheme was accessible to all those affected by their stays in the Magdalen laundries. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Nothing About Us Without Us - Achieving Equal Rights and Equity for Women with Disabilities: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...have touched on how Ireland has had a shameful history of incarceration, of populations who are "disruptive" or seen-as disruptive to the State. We have seen that history with mother and baby homes, Magdalen institutions and so on. However, I am very conscious that there are complex issues around women's choices. Last year, I worked closely with some residents in the Sisters of...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2021)

Erin McGreehan: ...they were destined to do. Ireland, in many ways, has been no country for women. The actions of State and church have proven this over and over again. We can look time and again at women's status, mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries, and inadequate healthcare for women. The treatment of Noël Browne back in the day, when he tried to change things and make them a little bit...