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Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (10 Feb 2015)

Niall Collins: ...arriving and missed some of the Minister's opening remarks so if she has already dealt with the matter about which I am about to inquire, I apologise. We received correspondence from Justice for Magdalenes Research, JFMR, just prior to the debate's commencement in which a number of pertinent questions are posed with regard to medical cards and the provision of GP services. In the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...Women's Day, as it happens, for a commitment from this Government to bring forward legislation, and it needs to be emergency legislation, to ensure records and all relevant documents relating to Magdalen laundries and residents of those institutions are preserved and protected and that it would be a criminal offence to alter, destroy or dispose of any of these documents. There is an...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2011) See 4 other results from this debate

Terry Leyden: I note the Government's decision regarding the Magdalene laundries and I welcome this speedy decision to at least establish this group to report within three months. It is vitally important that an independent chairperson be appointed to this group and that there will be a follow-up to the recommendations it is to be hoped will arise therefrom. I also welcome the decision by the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (2 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Shatter: Mr Justice Quirke has been asked to advise on the establishment of a scheme for the benefit of those women who were admitted to and worked in a Magdalen Laundry and to examine how best to operate, as part of that scheme, necessary supports for women who have been in a Magdalen Laundry. It is a matter for Mr Justice Quirke to decide independently how he will carry out his examination. He was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (3 Mar 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Billy Kelleher: ...Institutions Bill 2014, if the dental, ophthalmic and aural services will be equivalent to those set out in appendix G of Judge Quirke's report, Health Amendment Act 1996 card guide, that is, if Magdalen women will be able to obtain any and all dental, ophthalmic and aural primary care services, including from private practitioners; and if referred for hospital treatment, if Magdalen...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...about the principle of the matter. I am giving a particular example in order to simplify. There was an industrial school at Lenaboy in Galway. Some of the people who resided there ended up in a Magdalen laundry. According to Mr. Justice Quirke, if someone attended an institution and got redress, she should not have her separate time spent in a Magdalen laundry excluded. The Department...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (2 Oct 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Kathleen Lynch: ...of the Attorney General are currently working to draft, as a priority, legislation which will provide for a range of health and personal social services to be made available to former residents of Magdalen laundries. It is the intention that the legislation will encompass the comprehensive range of services identified by Judge Quirke in his report as being required to address the health...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013) See 4 other results from this debate

Alan Shatter: ...Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Its concluding observations covered a wide range of areas which impact on the remit of several Departments. The committee recommended on Magdalen laundries:The State should institute prompt, independent, and thorough investigations into all allegations of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (19 May 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy is aware the Magdalene Laundries were private institutions run by the Religious Orders. While labour affairs are a matter for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and taxation affairs are a matter for the Revenue Commissioners, I am not aware of any special arrangements for the Religious Orders. If the Deputy has any evidence of wrongdoing in this regard she can...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013) See 12 other results from this debate

Mick Wallace: More than a year ago, I was approached in the Italian quarter by a woman who had been in one of the Magdalen laundries. She had spent 16 years in an industrial school, was found by her mother and moved with her to England, where she stayed for nine months. She left because she was being abused by her stepfather and on her return to Ireland, she was picked up by the gardaí and brought...

Residential Institutions Redress (Amendment) Bill, 2011: Second Stage (14 Jul 2011) See 9 other results from this debate

I cannot speak on this Bill today without referring to the Justice for Magdalenes group. I wish to acknowledge the painstaking work of the group with Dr. Jane Smith and others. These women endured abusive and degrading treatment and I sincerely hope that the recent decision will bring about what the Justice for Magdalenes group has been requesting for many years and for far too long....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013) See 15 other results from this debate

Caít Keane: ...the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, Deputy Michael Martin, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. Yesterday was a fine day. The Magdalen girls and ladies had suffered for so long. I listened to them on "Morning Ireland" and they appreciate all that was done. The Taoiseach's speech was very moving. He demonstrated...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (29 Nov 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can advise the Deputy that the Government made the decision to provide a grant to the Irish Women Survivors Support Network (IWSSN) as over 20% of the applicants to the Magdalen Laundries Redress Scheme are resident in the UK. From an early stage in the process the IWSSN had engaged with my Department, the McAleese Committee and with Judge Quirke. As the Deputy may be aware, the IWSSN...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: The Taoiseach's historic, heartfelt and emotional apology to the women who suffered in the Magdalen laundries was one of the most moving experiences I, or those who have been long before me, have ever experienced in the Dáil. I welcome the progress made to date. What has been described in terms of what happened to these women was a national shame for every county and parish throughout...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (26 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...to this application (Dáil Question No. 436 of 6 November, 2018 and Dáil Question No. 127 of 24 January, 2019) I explained that this application comes under the 2018 Addendum to the terms of the 2013 Magdalen Restorative JusticeEx Gratia Scheme. That Addendum applies the scheme to persons who were resident in one of 14 adjoining institutions and who worked in the laundries of...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (27 Apr 2010) See 2 other results from this answer

Michael Kennedy: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a letter from Justice For Magdalenes, first submitted on 8 February and again on 29 March 2010; if she will clarify her Department's role in transferring women from State-funded mother and baby homes into Magdalene laundries as outlined in the Department of Local Government and Public Health Annual Report, 1932,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Magdalen Laundries (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Bruton: I think the Deputy may be referring to the Magdalen Laundries Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme which was set up by the Department of Justice and Equality following the publication of the report in February, 2013 of an Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of the State's involvement with the Magdalen Laundries. It was chaired by then Senator Martin McAleese and it is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (1 Jul 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Frances Fitzgerald: With regard to the provision of health services, Judge Quirke in his report on the Magdalen laundries, had recommended that legislation be introduced to give the women the same entitlement as those under the Hepatitis C scheme. This is to be implemented by the Department of Health but my Department will introduce the necessary legislative provisions. I can confirm for the Deputy that, on...

Written Answers — UN Committee Against Torture: UN Committee Against Torture (15 Jun 2011) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Shatter: ...as the prevention of domestic violence and human trafficking. Its concluding observations cover a wide range of areas from prison conditions to the total prohibition of corporal punishment, the Magdalen Laundries, the follow up of the Ryan Report and the processing of applications for refugee status, all of which impact on the remit of several Government Departments. Specifically, in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (11 Jun 2013) See 2 other results from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...taken to address the requests made by the Rapporteur for Follow-up on Concluding Observations, Committee Against Torture, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights details supplied) on the Magdalene Laundries paragraph 21; the way he will respond to the statement that the inquiry into the Magdalene Laundry institutions lacked many elements of prompt, independent and thorough...