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Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (20 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme was established in 2013 by the Department of Justice and Equality on foot of the recommendations contained in the Magdalen Commission Report. Women who qualify under the Ex-Gratia Scheme are eligible to access a range of health services in Ireland in accordance with the recommendations of the Magdalen Commission Report.  These services...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (19 Jul 2011) See 4 other results from this answer

Alan Shatter: I can confirm that I have received correspondence from the Justice for Magdalenes Group. I have noted their concerns which I might add, were discussed when I met this group on 4 July. I am confident that their concerns can be addressed through the inter-departmental committee's terms of reference which are to establish the facts of the State's involvement and clarify any State interaction...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (14 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department does not operate or fund any grant scheme that is specifically targeted at former residents of Magdalene Laundries. As the Deputy will be aware, the Government considered the circumstances of women and girls who resided in the Laundries last year and decided that it was essential as a first step to fully establish the true facts and circumstances relating to the Magdalene...

Order of Business (19 Jan 2012) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Lou McDonald: ...will be a difficult and controversial item of legislation, particularly for survivors of institutional abuse who still await State recognition and redress. The interdepartmental committee on the Magdalene laundries has not reported back to the Dáil and I am disappointed that the Minister refuses to acknowledge State responsibility for the survivors of Bethany Home. When will the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (11 Dec 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: 129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure in place for a Magdalen laundry restorative justice applicant who does not respond within the two months of being offered a lump sum payment as calculated by length of stay by the restorative justice implementation unit; if the applicant disagrees with the length of stay as calculated by the restorative justice implementation...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

David Cullinane: Yesterday I raised the issue of the Magdalen laundries and the refusal of the religious orders to face up to their moral, ethical and financial responsibilities to the women concerned. I also asked the Leader if he would impress upon the Taoiseach the need for him to be more forceful on the issue. I was not at all persuaded by the Taoiseach's contribution in the Dáil yesterday. The...

Seanad: Address by President of the Irish Human Rights Commission (28 Sep 2011) See 2 other results from this debate

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Irish Human Rights Commission, in its report of 2010 and assessment of human rights issues arising from the Magdalene laundries, declined to conduct an inquiry into the treatment of women and girls in those institutions. It published 12 conclusions and recommended, and rightly so, that the State set up a statutory inquiry to examine serious human rights issues and provide redress for the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (5 Mar 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Mick Wallace: 151. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the Magdalen laundries ex gratia scheme, the date on which women can expect pensions and health care; if women living abroad will receive health care coverage; if health care coverage will include private hospitals and services as currently enjoyed by Health (Amendment) Act cardholders; if and when an independent dedicated unit...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (11 Jun 2014) See 2 other results from this answer

Frances Fitzgerald: ...Scheme a card entitling its holder to health services equivalent to those provided to the holder of a HAA card should be given to each of the women who were admitted to and worked in a designated Magdalen laundry." Appendix G of Judge Quirke's report contains information extracted from the Guide to Community Services Available to HAA Card Holders Under Health (Amendment) Act 1996. In this...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (30 Jun 2010) See 3 other results from this answer

Michael Kennedy: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is in a position to respond in public to the letters from Justice for Magdalenes seeking clarification on the special provision, as outlined in the Department of Local Government and Public Health Annual Report 1932-33, of transferring women who had multiple births outside of marriage from a State-funded mother and baby home to...

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)

Mary Seery Kearney: .... I am very sensitive to the need for care and consideration on anything around to this. I am confused about how this might relate to developing the site of a former industrial school or a former Magdalen laundry. We have one former Magdalen laundry in the north inner city that is in the care of Dublin City Council. There has been no move to either preserve or demolish the site, or do...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (16 Jun 2011) See 2 other results 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 (2 Jul 2013) See 2 other results from this answer

Alan Shatter: ...Laundries to see justice done. The process I initiated resulted in an unprecedented trawl of papers and records held by the State and State agencies to assist in establishing the facts about the Magdalen laundries and gave everyone a unique opportunity to detail what they knew. The work of the Inter-departmental Committee chaired by Dr. McAleese provided the platform for the apology...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011) See 7 other results from this debate

Terry Leyden: ...respond to the outcome of the deliberations of the Irish Human Rights Commission. It decided that we should establish a statutory mechanism to investigate the matters advanced by the Justice for Magdalenes group. It would be an appropriate opportunity for the Minister to redress the situation. The statement is significant. We all have a responsibility to apologise for what happened to...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jun 2014)

Anne Ferris: ...were but pieces in the large jigsaw puzzle known as "religious Ireland". I wrote an article last year about a Scottish man who, in 1955, talked his way into the Tuam mother and baby home and the Magdalen laundry in Galway. The man was an author, researching a book about Ireland. His name was Dr. Halliday Sutherland and his experience of both visits is related in a chapter of his book,...

Order of Business (28 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and I intend to put forward amendments to the Bill in order to address several stark omissions therein, including the omission from its terms of reference of the women and children of the Magdalene laundries and Bethany Home. I do not have any sense that the Government is minded to amend the Bill to give to those particular categories of victims the recognition, support and compensation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (27 Feb 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Shatter: ...Scheme a card entitling its holder to health services equivalent to those provided to the holder of a HAA card should be given to each of the women who were admitted to and worked in a designated Magdalen laundry." Appendix G of Judge Quirke's report contains information extracted from the Guide to Community Services Available to HAA Card Holders Under Health (Amendment) Act 1996. In...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2013) See 9 other results from this debate

Sandra McLellan: ...important and pressing issue. This is perhaps one of the most important, if not the most important, issues to come before the House since the foundation of the State. I say this because the Magdalen laundries, the way in which they were run and the total denial of the rights and well-being of the incarcerated women shed an important light on the dysfunctional nature of the State's...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (3 Feb 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

Frances Fitzgerald: ...women receive medical services equivalent to those provided by the holder of a HAA card and he also advised that “not all of the services described in the Guide may be directly relevant to the Magdalen women and any comparable Guide for the Magdalen women would require suitable adaptation. Judge Quirke also recommended that legislation was required to give effect to this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: To date just over €27.2million has been paid to 720 women under the Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme  In my response to the previous Dáil question in relation to this particular case (Dáil Question no. 436 of 6 November, 2018), I informed the Deputy that the application falls to be dealt under the Addendum to the terms of...