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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

.... Sometimes, they cannot even afford all of the costs of their medical needs. A simple fix could be to create a Health (Amendment) Act card designed just for survivors of institutional abuse, Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes. These survivors have already been through immense hardship and it is our duty to ensure that they receive the care, assistance and respect they deserve...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mother and Baby Homes (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: ...supports, Government has approved the provision of an enhanced package of health supports and services to survivors in Ireland, similar to the supports previously provided to survivors of the Magdalen Laundries and which are to be provided to former residents of Mother and Baby Homes. This is commonly referred to as an “enhanced medical card”. Survivors living abroad will be...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (5 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 317. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline, in tabular form, the Members of the Steering Group established to develop a National Centre for Research and Remembrance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43347/23]

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Heritage Sites (4 Oct 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...and Dublin City Council putting money into the building to secure the windows, this is far from enough. It is located just around the corner from Seán MacDermott Street and the location of the Magdalen laundry. Of course, there are now very exciting plans for the Magdalen laundry on Seán MacDermott involving the commemoration of all that took place there and in mother and baby...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (3 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: ...to planning. This included a proposal to develop a specific memorial integrated with the Garden of Remembrance. Since the publication of the Ryan Report in 2009, separate investigations into the Magdalen Laundries and the Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions have taken place, and it is clear that there were referral pathways between the various institutions and that some...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Sep 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...Residential Institutions Redress Board and payments made in relation to disability caused by Thalidomide. 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...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...of the mentality behind this scheme for the former residents we are dealing with. As regards sites of conscience, there have been repeated references to this term being used in respect of the former Magdalen laundry. I understand a lot of people are unhappy about that, but the site of conscience should be this House. This is where we should be acting according to conscience.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...Dáil, by the Taoiseach on behalf of the State. In February 2013, the then Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny, issued an apology on behalf of the Government in Dáil Éireann to women who were resident in Magdalen laundries for hurt done to them and any stigma suffered by reason of their residence in those institutions. The Magdalen ex gratiascheme, as recommended by Mr. Justice John...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (27 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...of historical records of residential institutions, in March 2022, Government approved high-level proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance to be based at the site of the former Magdalen Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin 1. The Centre will honour equally all those who were resident in Industrial Schools, Reformatories, Magdalen Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the experiences that children experienced in other institutions if they were moved to them. As we know, there are redress schemes for some of the other institutions such as industrial schools and Magdalen laundries. This is why I have always argued in response to amendments such as this that it is important that amendments we make to the scheme, and reports the scheme requires to be...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (20 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm that Senior Counsel, Mary O’Toole was engaged to undertake a review of 216 cases under the Magdalen ex-Gratia Scheme, where the length of time spent in the institution was deemed less than that claimed by the applicant, as recommended by the Ombudsman in his 2017 Report. Ms O’Toole carried out the review with the assistance of one Junior Counsel and 3 Department...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ..., as the Government has done, between public and private records. In previous responses to me and other Deputies, the Taoiseach said that the public records in the possession of the State in various Departments will be made available in a central repository on the former site of the Magdalen laundry on Seán McDermott Street in due course. The Taoiseach might provide brief update on...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...negotiations and whatever the conclusion, the Houses will be informed of the outcome. Regarding the points about the payments rate for the scheme, they are modelled on the approach taken under the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratiascheme. I secured, in the process of bringing this legislation forward, I secured Government agreement to improve the overall approach to payments. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (30 May 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...appropriately, it is important to look at the reasons, as the Minister of State outlined, for these young people being in nursing homes. Professor Susan Coote of the University of Limerick and Ms Magdalen Rogers of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, in their recent evidence before the Joint Committee on Health, alluded to the expansion of neurorehabilitation teams into every CHO as a...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Fintan Warfield: ...by Senator Black, risks violating the right to accessing justice. The UN Committee Against Torture found that waivers imposed in the context of the residential institutions redress board, an ex gratia Magdalen laundries redress scheme, were unenforceable. It also stated that judicial remedies must always be available to victims, irrespective of what other remedies are available. Waivers...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...towards women has characterised the treatment of women in this country for virtually the entire history of the State. These attitudes led to the obscenities of the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries, the Bethany homes and to tens and tens of thousands of women having to flee abroad under a shadow of stigma and shame for abortions in another country. All this history of...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...and children. That situation persisted for far too long. We are all thinking of the various carceral institutions in which women and children were confined for many decades, for example, the Magdalen institutions, the mother and baby homes and the industrial schools, in which much violence was perpetrated, but this survey highlights that the issue persists even after those institutions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023) See 57 other results from this debate

Bernard Durkan: ...is to discuss consideration of access to community neurological rehabilitation teams. To assist the committee with this I am pleased to welcome from the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, NAI, Ms Magdalen Rogers, executive director, Dr. Susan Coote, associate professor, University of Limerick, and Dr. Niall Pender, principal clinical neuropsychologist in Beaumont Hospital and associate...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...with the creation of a records and memorial centre in Sean McDermott Street to act as a site of conscience and a site where what happened in mother and baby and county home institutions and, indeed, in Magdalen laundries and other institutions can be understood. We will also have a dedicated archive. This is run by the National Archives of Ireland and the National Museum of Ireland,...