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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...part of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes that I remember which detailed a county manager going into one of the county homes and deciding who was going to the Magdalen laundry from the mother and baby home. The involvement of some of the local authorities in the running of those institutions and making those kinds of decisions was more than one might...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...was resident in any other institution offering social care/support either prior to or subsequent to the adopted person’s birth; (xxii) information regarding whether the mother stayed at the institution with the adopted person prior to their placement with the adoptive parents; (xxiii) any anecdotal information regarding the adopted person’s stay in the institution ...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...; money to a new state-of-the-art maternity hospital, with the best facilities and all the rest of it into the control of a religious order. This a religious order that has a legacy in this State of running Magdalen laundries and having illegal adoptions through the St. Patrick’s Guild. Has it anything to do with history? Has it anything to do with the position of women for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Government's approval yesterday for the national centre for research and remembrance, to be located at the site of the former Magdalen laundry on Seán McDermott Street in Dublin city centre. The centre will serve as a national memorial to honour all those who were resident in mother and baby homes, industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalen laundries and related...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022) See 31 other results from this debate

Seán Crowe: We are meeting today with representatives from the Neurological Alliance of Ireland to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on neurological services, care and capacity. I welcome Ms Magdalen Rogers, the alliance's executive director, and Professor Orla Hardiman, national clinical lead for neurology and professor of neurology at Trinity College Dublin. All witnesses are reminded of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...by Government. The information and tracing legislation is making progress in the Oireachtas. The burials legislation also has been published. We spoke earlier about the decision that the former Magdalen laundry on Seán McDermott Street will be the location of the new national centre for research and remembrance. The Secretary General of my Department did a lot of work in that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...place to live and work. I very much welcome today's announcement of Government approval of high-level proposals for a national centre for research and remembrance, which will be situated on the site of the former Magdalen laundry on Seán MacDermott Street. The centre will stand as a national memorial to honour all those who were resident in mother and baby homes, industrial...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Survivors Memorial (24 Mar 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The National Centre will stand as a National Memorial in honour of those who were resident in Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, Industrial Schools, Magdalene Laundries and related institutions. This project also provides a basis for several other interdependent initiatives. I believe that this project will make a significant...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...form or another, and the issues in this regard have dominated the past two Dáileanna. Included are the issues of the eighth amendment, childcare costs, mother and baby homes, the lack of redress, Magdalen laundries, symphysiotomy, CervicalCheck, gender-based violence, the lack of refuge spaces and the economic struggles that women have faced, including, significantly, those of the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...was resident in any other institution offering social care/support either prior to or subsequent to the adopted person’s birth; (xxii) information regarding whether the mother stayed at the institution with the adopted person prior to their placement with the adoptive parents; (xxiii) any anecdotal information regarding the adopted person’s stay in the institution; (xxiv)...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...back to the religious orders, which need to make contributions. There was an inability of different Governments to analyse and give figures. The original forecast for the redress scheme for those who went to industrial schools, as indicated by the Comptroller and Auditor General, was €250 million but it ended up costing €1.25 billion. I do not say this to argue that cost...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Kathleen Funchion: I move amendment No. 39: In page 10, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(a) whether the relevant person’s mother was transferred from a Magdalene Laundry or another institution, to the Mother and Baby Home prior to giving birth and if so, details of the circumstances,”.

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 (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...structures. No one is overseeing the protection of religious sites or religious institutions. Will the proposed Bill cover modern sites such as residential institutions, industrial schools and Magdalen laundries, particularly as such places certainly reach the threshold of interest? There may be structures that are of archaeological merit but also within them are graves, both marked and...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...medical card, the key issue with the enhanced medical card we will provide to 19,000 former residents is that it requires a legislative basis. That has been the case in terms of survivors of the Magdalen institutions and survivors of the industrial schools as well. We need a legislative basis for the provision of a large volume of medical cards. That is why we are looking to move the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (3 Feb 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The National Centre will stand as a National Memorial in honour of those who were resident in Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, Industrial Schools, Magdalene Laundries and related institutions. This project also provides a basis for several other interdependent initiatives. I believe this project will make a significant contribution in our...

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) See 2 other results from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...and Youth, which recently dealt with mother and baby homes, institutional burials, and birth information and tracing. The latter is not as relevant to this. We had discussions about the Magdalen laundries and industrial schools. The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth attended the public hearing on the planning application for the Bessborough site because...

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...divorce and getting out of bad relationships. The State also did not want women to have control over their own bodies. We have had the horrific organised institutional abuse of women and children in the Magdalen laundries and the mother and baby homes. Against that background, it is crazy that religious institutions with particular views of women, sexuality and so on, still control 90%...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Jan 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is also disregarded for social welfare means test purposes. 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...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Brendan Howlin: ...on a difficult journey from the establishment of this State, the centenary of which we are celebrating, where women were chattels; subservient; required to leave the Civil Service on marriage; incarcerated in Magdalen laundries; subjected to symphysiotomy; denied their basic human and sexual rights; and, most oppressive of all, made silent in their suffering. All of us have heard down the...