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Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Data (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of broadening the scheme for women living abroad who suffered in the Magdalen laundries, who are now entitled to free general practitioner services, prescribed drugs, surgical appliances, nursing and home help services, dental, ophthalmic and aural services, counselling, chiropody and physiotherapy, upon their return to Ireland, to include all...

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...that this Bill was not mentioned in the programme for Government and it is clear that it is not at the top of the agenda in housing estates and villages. It is an important piece of legislation but perhaps the Bill to protect mortgage holders whose mortgages are owned by vulture funds or the Bill offering redress for women who were in Magdalen laundries should have come first in the...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (29 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...on the footing proposed in the Bill is further proof that the troika mindset is still very much being in place in Government Buildings, Fine Gael and the Labour Party. While we will deal in greater detail with many sections on Committee Stage, I wish to comment on the part of the Bill dealing with the State Claims Agency and the centralisation of claims made against the State. Claims...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the fact that this issue is being dealt with in this Finance Bill, as was recommended by the Magdalen Commission report. That report recommended that payments, whether lump sum or other, would be tax free. It is sad and must be acknowledged that since the apology from the Taoiseach to these women - and as we discuss this Bill today and its implications for the compensation...

Seanad: Women's Participation in Politics: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Pearse Doherty: ...have come a long way in terms of achieving equality for women. Thankfully, this State and the religious orders that ran it for many years have ceased consigning women to a life of slave labour in Magdalene laundries. They have ceased carrying our horrific birth practices in maternity hospitals and prohibiting birth control. It could be argued that if more women were represented in the...