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International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...form or another, and the issues in this regard have dominated the past two Dáileanna. Included are the issues of the eighth amendment, childcare costs, mother and baby homes, the lack of redress, Magdalen laundries, symphysiotomy, CervicalCheck, gender-based violence, the lack of refuge spaces and the economic struggles that women have faced, including, significantly, those of the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...was resident in any other institution offering social care/support either prior to or subsequent to the adopted person’s birth; (xxii) information regarding whether the mother stayed at the institution with the adopted person prior to their placement with the adoptive parents; (xxiii) any anecdotal information regarding the adopted person’s stay in the institution; (xxiv)...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...back to the religious orders, which need to make contributions. There was an inability of different Governments to analyse and give figures. The original forecast for the redress scheme for those who went to industrial schools, as indicated by the Comptroller and Auditor General, was €250 million but it ended up costing €1.25 billion. I do not say this to argue that cost...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Kathleen Funchion: I move amendment No. 39: In page 10, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(a) whether the relevant person’s mother was transferred from a Magdalene Laundry or another institution, to the Mother and Baby Home prior to giving birth and if so, details of the circumstances,”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...structures. No one is overseeing the protection of religious sites or religious institutions. Will the proposed Bill cover modern sites such as residential institutions, industrial schools and Magdalen laundries, particularly as such places certainly reach the threshold of interest? There may be structures that are of archaeological merit but also within them are graves, both marked and...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...medical card, the key issue with the enhanced medical card we will provide to 19,000 former residents is that it requires a legislative basis. That has been the case in terms of survivors of the Magdalen institutions and survivors of the industrial schools as well. We need a legislative basis for the provision of a large volume of medical cards. That is why we are looking to move the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (3 Feb 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The National Centre will stand as a National Memorial in honour of those who were resident in Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, Industrial Schools, Magdalene Laundries and related institutions. This project also provides a basis for several other interdependent initiatives. I believe this project will make a significant contribution in our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...and Youth, which recently dealt with mother and baby homes, institutional burials, and birth information and tracing. The latter is not as relevant to this. We had discussions about the Magdalen laundries and industrial schools. The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth attended the public hearing on the planning application for the Bessborough site because...

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...divorce and getting out of bad relationships. The State also did not want women to have control over their own bodies. We have had the horrific organised institutional abuse of women and children in the Magdalen laundries and the mother and baby homes. Against that background, it is crazy that religious institutions with particular views of women, sexuality and so on, still control 90%...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Jan 2022)

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...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Brendan Howlin: ...on a difficult journey from the establishment of this State, the centenary of which we are celebrating, where women were chattels; subservient; required to leave the Civil Service on marriage; incarcerated in Magdalen laundries; subjected to symphysiotomy; denied their basic human and sexual rights; and, most oppressive of all, made silent in their suffering. All of us have heard down the...

Violence Against Women: Statements (19 Jan 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...data together. I am always struck in these debates by our history in relation to women. Since the foundation of the State, we have not had a good history in this regard, in particular with the Magdalen laundries and mother and baby institutions. We cannot keep repeating mistakes and continuously have debates here during which we declare that we are shocked and outraged. We as...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2021)

Bríd Smith: .... They cannot ban it outright or object to it outright but they will try to chip away at it. The kind of Ireland that would bring us back to is the kind of Ireland that saw mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries, symphysiotomy and women being absolutely ignored in terms of their medical needs. We, as Deputies, are not in a position to pass laws that say whether medical procedures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

...by Peter Tyndall, including A Good Death, dealing with the very sensitive issue of end-of-life care; Learning to Get Better, which deals with health complaints; Opportunity Lost, relating to the Magdalen redress scheme; and Wasted Lives, the most recent report, which looked at the appropriateness of the placement of people under 65 years of age in nursing homes designed for older people....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...for several other interdependent projects. The national centre will stand as a national memorial in honour of those who were resident in mother and baby homes, county institutions, industrial schools, Magdalene laundries and other related institutions. It will make a significant contribution to our journey of recognising and learning from the failures of the past, acknowledging the hurt...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Institutions (3 Dec 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...group recommended. It would have applied financial payments to 19,000 survivors. We are applying financial payments to 34,000 survivors. The rates are similar to those used in the Magdalen redress scheme, using the criteria of years spent in an institution. As the Deputy correctly said, for short periods of less than three months' the rate is €5,000 and for those who were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021) See 5 other results from this debate

Michael Moynihan: ...Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, the future systems and innovation of service provision. On behalf of the committee, I wish to extend a warm welcome to Ms Magdalen Rogers, executive director of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland; Dr. Niall Pender, principal clinical neuropsychologist and head of psychology at the neuroscience centre in Beaumont...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...only have been a slight underspend on this particular scheme. Spending on the back-to-work family dividend for 2021 is expected to total €12.6 million, which includes €200,000 for the Christmas bonus. Spending on the Magdalen laundries scheme is expected to total €3.2 million, which includes €100,000 for the Christmas bonus. Spending on the blind pension...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Statements (30 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...in October, deputy First Minister, Michelle O'Neill MLA, said: This is an important day of acknowledgement recognising the suffering inflicted on mothers and children in Mother and Baby institutions, Magdalene Laundries and workhouses.  This was a shameful episode in our history right across the island - women, girls and children were wronged by Church and State. I know from speaking...