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Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: From correspondence supplied by the Deputy it appears that the person in question made an application to the Residential Institutions Redress Board in relation to her period of residence in a Magdalen laundry in 1961-1962. Under the terms of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 financial awards are made to people who as children were abused while resident in institutions for which...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Eligibility (4 May 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-gratia scheme applies to 10 Magdalen institutions and 2 specific training schools. It does not extend beyond those institutions and there are no plans to extend it beyond those institutions. As the legal proceedings to which the Deputy refers are ongoing, I am restricted from commenting in detail on the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (27 Nov 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 299 and 305 together. The Government is committed to complying with all of the recommendations of the Ombudsman in relation to the operation of Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme. In relation to the Ombudsman's principal recommendation that the Scheme should be applied to women who worked in the laundry of one of the 12 'Magdalen' Institutions and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (23 Feb 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Magdalen Laundries Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme was set up following the publication of the report in February, 2013 of an Inter-Departmental Committee set up to establish the facts of the State's involvement with the Magdalen Laundries. It was chaired by then Senator Martin McAleese and it is commonly referred to as the McAleese report. The material in the Report relates to 10...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I would like to think that but then we fast-forward to 2009 and we have the Minister for Education and Science of the time making a statement in the Dáil that the State had no input into the Magdalen laundries. That has since been disproved and we have had the Magdalen report. Now we are up to the mother and baby homes and again the State is doing its damnedest. My question to Mr....

Written Answers — Redress Schemes: Redress Schemes (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Magdalen Laundries were private, religious run institutions without any legislative or State mandate for their general operation. As I have previously informed the House, the vast majority of females who entered or were placed in Magdalen Laundries did so without any direct involvement of the State. It may be helpful to the Deputy to know that my Department's research indicates that a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (5 Nov 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Dara Calleary: 811. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the laundry at St. Joseph's in Clifden, County Galway, was not included in the Magdalen laundry list for the purposes of the redress scheme; if he will acknowledge that St. Joseph's laundry, Clifden, was a Magdalen laundry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46722/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Magdalen laundries and Bethany homes including Ovoca House, Westbank Orphanage and the Church of Ireland Magdalen home, Leeson Street will be included in the terms of reference of the statutory inquiry into mother and babies homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27897/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Report (3 Nov 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: ...the Health Amendment Act (HAA) description of services for the purposes of illustrating the type and extent of the primary and community services which he recommended should be available to the Magdalen women. He found that the health status of Magdalen women was diverse in nature, that not all the HAA services might be directly relevant to the Magdalen women and that any comparable set...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...recommends that legislation be introduced to give effect to his recommendation with regard to the provision of health services. In his report Judge Quirke was of the opinion that the women of the Magdalen laundries should be provided with access to a comprehensive suite of health services. Judge Quirke's recommendation that the women receive medical services equivalent to those provided...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...that the Minister would give the same answer would be wrong, but there we are. Given the reference to institutions that were not the subject of previous State address, it is more than sad that the Magdalen laundries will be excluded because of the McAleese report which was a huge disappointment for those who had gone though the Magdalen laundry experience. The Minister cannot be unaware...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: It is just over a month since the Irish Human Rights Commission reported on the Magdalene laundries issue, and its findings were significant. Does the Tánaiste have any plans to put in place an investigation or to respond in any way to the Irish Human Rights Commission's report on the Magdalene laundries? We are talking about a small community here-----

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013) See 3 other results from this answer

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to advertise the existence of the Magdalene Fund/Commission, as well as the requirement that women register with the Commission, in media outlets at home and abroad, in view of the lessons learned form the Residential Institutions Redress Board, where applicants living abroad came forward after the deadline claiming that they were...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Marie Moloney: I, too, commend the work of Justice for Magdalenes group. I know from speaking to the Minister of State that he and Justice for Magdalenes want what is best for the women. People have been getting hung up, as it were, on a HAA card. The HAA card was introduced under the Health (Amendment) Act specifically for people with hepatitis C. The only difference, as already outlined, is that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (5 Nov 2013)

Alan Shatter: ...and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Its concluding observations covered a wide range of areas which impact on the remit of several Government Departments.In relation to the Magdalen Laundries, the Committee recommended that "the State should institute prompt, independent, and thorough investigations into all allegations of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (27 Apr 2010) See 2 other results from this answer

Michael Kennedy: Question 106: To ask the Taoiseach in view of the fact that Justice For Magdalenes has demonstrated the State's complicity in referring women to the Magdalene laundries, will he enter into discussions with a person (details supplied) who recently asserted their intent to find a just solution for survivors of the laundries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16748/10]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (11 Oct 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The Magdalene Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme was established in 2013 by the then Department of Justice and Equality on foot of the recommendations contained in the Magdalen Commission Report by Judge Quirke. In his report, Judge Quirke was of the opinion that Magdalen women should be provided with access to a comprehensive suite of health services. He specified GP services,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalene Laundries (19 Sep 2012) See 1 other result from this answer

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will allocate further resources to the Inter-Departmental Committee investigating State involvement with the Magdalene Laundries in order to allow it to complete its work as soon as possible; if he will begin implementing a reparation scheme for the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39287/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise a recent publication of which the Taoiseach may be aware, entitled A Dublin Magdalene Laundry - Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Irelandedited by Mark Coen, Katherine O'Donnell and Maeve O'Rourke. This new publication tells the story of Donnybrook Magdalen laundry, which was established in 1837 by the Religious Sisters of Charity. It reveals a significant amount of new...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (16 Nov 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...the particular publication on two occasions and discussed the question of an advertisement or article. Following on from this, my officials provided background information and details about the Magdalen Scheme to the publication. The Deputy will be aware that the McAleese and Quirke Reports and the establishment of the Magdalen Scheme attracted worldwide media attention. The Irish...