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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (4 Oct 2016)

Jackie Cahill: ...balance. The amount paid by each person is determined by a financial means assessment. The 2009 Act has been amended in the past to exclude from financial means assessment ex gratiapayments from the Magdalen laundry redress scheme and this Bill provides that ex gratiapayments from other redress schemes will also be excluded from any assessment, which Fianna Fáil supports. However, I...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...is not a divisive issue in this House - are all committed to the implementation of the report. The Taoiseach stood as a proud Irishman in the Dáil and spoke in a tearful way of the issue of the Magdalen women. He was commended for doing so. I commended him - we all did - because it was an emotional day for everybody in the Oireachtas. However, I am fully convinced there will be a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...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 Magdalen 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....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Finian McGrath: ...caused by thalidomide. Any payment made by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries or through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme are also disregarded in social welfare means assessments. All other compensation or court awards which are not provided for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...by the Residential 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 Magdalen Laundries are also disregarded in social welfare means assessments. All other compensation or court awards which are not provided for in social welfare legislation are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...to keep children healthy. We will have serious health issues arising from this. The Minister spoke about putting pregnant women in particular locations. I am sure he is not speaking about a Magdalen laundry. Pregnant women have specific needs. They should be able to access clean water and not have to buy it in the hotel for €5 a bottle. Any supports are welcome. Will the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (20 Jul 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...of the way to ensure their children will have the same rights and access as children who do not have a disability. I thought the stories from those in the industrial schools and the ladies in the Magdalen laundries were the worst we would hear about how we treat vulnerable people. However, we are hearing more heartbreaking, devastating and disturbing stories of what has been happening to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (12 Jul 2016)

Finian McGrath: ...caused by thalidomide. Any payment made by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries or through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme are also disregarded in social welfare means assessments. All other compensation or court awards which are not provided for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (12 Jul 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Carol Nolan: 506. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing a health amendment card for Magdalen laundry survivors; to define the entitlements under the current scheme particularly in relation to aids, appliances and medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20665/16]

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Jun 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...unconstitutional. I welcome the tone of this discussion and the rational and reasonable debate. When the famous amendment was introduced in 1983, the Bishop of Galway was Dr. Eamon Casey and the Magdalen laundry in Galway was still open. It was also the year that Sheila Rodgers died in Drogheda. A young, married Dundalk mother of two, she died in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda,...

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Frances Black: .... It is a disgrace. It is not right that people are kept in such conditions. Some county councillors, who are also concerned about this issue, have described direct provision as the modern Magdalen laundries. It is imperative that when people come to Ireland we treat them with the respect and dignity they deserve. We need to improve the standards in which they are kept but also reduce...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (28 Jun 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Carol Nolan: 262. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been means tested for a State pension (dontributory), despite the fact that the person concerned is a Magdalen laundry survivor and provision has been made to allow them to receive an amount equivalent to the State pension (contributory); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18098/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (23 Jun 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to encourage relevant religious orders to contribute to the Magdalen restitution fund; the date of the last contact her Department had with each of these orders; the amount religious orders have contributed to date, if any; the nature of this contribution, if any; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17772/16]

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Ruth Coppinger: ...that having received such a stern rebuke, the Taoiseach is going to continue with the delaying tactic of a citizens' assembly. He has spoken about listening to women in the case of the Magdalens - we could argue that one - and in the case of marriage equality but he did not listen to women when Savita Halappanavar died. At that time, rather than saying it was absolutely necessary to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (9 Jun 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can advise the Deputy that the processing of all applications to the Magdalene Laundries Restorative Justice Ex Gratia Scheme starts off on the premise that the testimony of the applicant is correct and the officers processing the application then seek to verify the application by checking appropriate records. If there are records and they are consistent with the application, then an offer...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...a public inquiry into a recent press report (details supplied) that claims that a corporation in the United States of America was able to use cheap labour, in the form of women incarcerated in some Magdalen laundries and other institutions, over many years to make profits for that company that are not taxable in Ireland; if she will request the religious orders to pay into the survivors'...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (19 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...Thalidomide. Any payment made by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries or through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme are also not taken into account in social welfare means assessments. All other compensation or court awards which are not provided...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Jan O'Sullivan: ...their birth origins. It was also about how society frowned on certain issues. It was an Ireland that we are all glad to see the back of. There has been progress in many respects, including on the Magdalen laundries, residential institutions legislation and all that followed from the latter, but we have not dealt with everything yet. The children's referendum was a major and important...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...represented in prison populations in every single country in the world. I can say anecdotally, because they come into my clinic and I know them from around my area, that people who were in industrial schools or Magdalene laundries, who had undiagnosed dyspraxia, dyslexia or other developmental problems, who had major housing issues or had abuse issues in their family are massively and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (26 Apr 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 222. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of women who have applied for the Magdalen ex gratia scheme; the number of women in receipt of benefits from the scheme overall; and the number of women who have applied for the scheme from the United States of America and Canada and who are in receipt of benefits. [8361/16]