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Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Seán Kyne: ...benefit; domiciliary care; farm assist; guardian payment; illness benefit; invalidity pension; job initiative schemes such as the jobseeker's allowance and the jobseeker's transitional payment; the Magdalen Commission scheme; the death benefit scheme; the one parent family payment; the partial capacity; rural social schemes; the State pension - contributory and non-contributory; the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ... 1st December 2023 Guardian's Payment (Non-Contributory) 8th December 2023 Back to Work Family Dividend 6th December 2023 Magdalen Commission Scheme 7th December 2023 Work Placement Experience Programme Week commencing 4th December 2023 State Pension (Contributory) 8th...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (28 Nov 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the Government-approved National Site of Conscience on the site of the former Magdalene Laundry, Sean MacDermott Street, Dublin; what stage the project is at; the estimated date for commencement of works and completion date; the funding that has been allocated to the project; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (21 Nov 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: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...I will brief Government on the matter when the process is concluded. I expect this process to take a number more months. No financial contributions were made by religious congregations to the Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme. Questions as to the contributions made by religious congregations to the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme should be directed to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...áil by various Taoisigh on behalf of the State. In February 2013, the then Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, issued an apology on behalf of the Government in Dáil Éireann to women who were resident in the Magdalen laundries for the hurt done to them and for any stigma and trauma experienced by reason of their residence in those institutions. The Government followed up on this through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...previously provided to the committee. With regard to health supports, the general scheme makes provision for an enhanced range of health services to former residents, on the same basis as those provided to survivors of the Magdalen laundries and which are to be provided to former residents of mother and baby and county home institutions. This package of supports is commonly referred to...

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...