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Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018) See 3 other results from this debate

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..." got their way. It was the year Ms Sheila Hodgers died, having been denied treatment for her cancer while she was pregnant. I am an Irishman. I live in a city dotted with physical reminders of Magdalen laundries, in a country with deep secrets of baby plots, mother and baby homes, sexual abuse and violence, where older women bear the mental and physical scars of churching and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (17 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme or to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalene Laundries are also disregarded. These compensation awards and payments were disregarded over the years as a result of Government decisions and the enactment of corresponding legislation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: ...Does he or she come back to the ombudsman time and again? What is the best advice the ombudsman can give? I agree with Dr. Muldoon's comments on direct provision. I believe they are modern day Magdalen laundries, but in a different context. Given this State's history with children it is not good enough for us all to be shocked in ten or 15 years time when stories emerge. We know what...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Apology (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of discussions he has had with Dublin City Council senior management regarding the creation of an appropriate memorial at the Gloucester Street Magdalen laundry site on Seán McDermott Street, Dublin 1; and the assistance his Department has provided to Dublin City Council to progress the engagement with Magdalen laundry survivors...

Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...it is an inconvenience to trade but because a hard border will strengthen partition. We oppose partition because, as James Connolly said, that partition will lead to a carnival of reaction North and South. That is what the Magdalen laundries represented, what the Tuam babies represented and what the opposition to gay rights and women's rights in the North currently represents. We intend...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Ardagh: The Ombudsman, Peter Tyndall, has published a report on the administration of the Magdalen laundries redress scheme by the Department of Justice and Equality. The report vindicates what survivors and campaigners have been saying about inadequacies and failures in the delivery of the scheme. It seems from the report that women were denied access to the redress scheme as a result of serious...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (12 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...Job Initiative - Back to Work Enterprise Allowance - Gateway - Back to Work Family Dividend - Disability Allowance - Blind Pension - Carer's Allowance - Domiciliary Care Allowance - Guardian's Payment (non-con) -Magdalen Commission Scheme Social Insurance schemes - State Pension (Contributory) - Widow(er)s' Surviving Civil Partners Pension (Contributory) - Occupational Injuries Death...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (7 Dec 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Jim O'Callaghan: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has written to each applicant to the Magdalen restorative justice scheme that was rejected and asserted a longer duration of stay than was accepted by his Department to advise them of their right to reapply in view of the Ombudsman's recent report, Opportunity Lost, on his Department's administration of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Magdalen Laundries (5 Dec 2017) See 4 other results from this debate

Jim O'Callaghan: We can all agree that the incarceration of women in Magdalen laundries was one of the most shameful periods of Irish history. It reflected badly on all aspects of Irish society. However, on 19 February 2013, it looked like we had turned over a new leaf with the then Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, issuing a public and heartfelt apology on behalf of the State to the women who were...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (5 Dec 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he plans to take further to the recommendations of the Ombudsman’s report on the Magdalen restorative justice scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51696/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (5 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department received a list of 107 women in the Galway Magdalen laundry in 1952 from the diocese of Galway in 2014 after being informed of its existence by a person (details supplied); the way in which he will ensure access to material for victims and their representatives as per the recommendation of UNCAT issued 11...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will accept the criticisms and recommendations of the Ombudsman report opportunity lost into the Magdalen restorative justice scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51323/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...the fact that the legal and health care systems in the UK cater for a significant number of Irish women, and has done so for decades. Given our experience with mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries, we are not in a position to be shouting from the rooftop in terms of how women have been treated in this country. I want to ask Mr. Thompson about future proofing. I take the point...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Maire Devine: ...put into institutional care, along with her small sister of two years old. She had an horrific childhood, with horrors we can only imagine and which we have heard of through the years about the Magdalen laundries. She protected her small sister and got out of there at the age of 16, never to return. She married happily and has children of her own. She is blind. She asked her children...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...xfa;s -Job Initiative -Back to Work Enterprise Allowance -Gateway -Back to Work Family Dividend -Disability Allowance -Blind Pension -Carer's Allowance -Domiciliary Care Allowance -Guardian's Payment (non-con) -Magdalen Commission Scheme Social Insurance schemes -State Pension (Contributory) -Widow(er)s' Surviving Civil Partners Pension (Contributory) -Occupational Injuries Death Benefit...

Topical Issue Matters (28 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: ...medical officer and the restoration of respite services at St. Patrick's community hospital, Fermoy, County Cork; (10) Deputy Clare Daly - the publication of the Ombudsman's report into the administration of the Magdalen restorative justice scheme; (11) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the EPA report on Ireland's increased CO2 emissions and reliance on fossil fuels; (12) Deputy Mick Wallace -...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...so much and yet the Department is prepared to go down blind alleys with it that will incur huge costs for the State. We listened to the Ombudsman recently reprimand the Department for its handling of the Magdalen redress scheme. It is mad stuff. I do not know for how much longer the Taoiseach will be in office. I do not know how in God's name he will rebuild the toxic relationship...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Nov 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Government makes numerous commitments to older people, empowering women, protecting children and young people and equality and inclusiveness. It appears that when it comes to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries all of these worthy commitments go out the window. Following a comprehensive investigation into the administration of the Magdalen restorative justice scheme, the Ombudsman...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2017)

Maire Devine: ...a report, Opportunity Lost, by the Ombudsman, Peter Tyndall, which has been just been published. The report criticises aspects of the Department of Justice and Equality's administration of the Magdalen restorative justice scheme. Mr. Tyndall indicates that the Department of Justice and Equality would have been aware of links between the units where women lived and the Magdalenes. The...

Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: ...would relate to people dealing with profit-hungry developers who have ripped them off on the pyrite scandal. It would also relate to the State which has treated people scandalously in the likes of the Magdalen laundries and so on. It is telling that we do not have class action legislation of this kind in the State. The absence of legislation such as this says a lot about the Fianna...