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Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: ...in addressing a series of issues which are a legacy of an earlier period. I am proud to be a Member of a Government that is currently implementing a redress scheme for the women who were in the Magdalen laundries. From the point of view of my Department, which is significantly involved in providing payments and income supports to the women who were in that situation, it is very...

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: ...Minister for Education and Skills would bring forward legislative proposals to allow for the retention of records by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse and all of the issues relating to the Magdalen laundries, etc. We are concerned about the fact that the destruction of any of those records would represent a significant loss. The Minister for Education and Skills has been working...

Order of Business (7 Nov 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The matter of the payments to the survivors of the Magdalene laundries was considered by the Government this week and there is progress on the arrangements for the payments to be made. I expect this will be progressed in the near future. On the issue of the victims of symphysiotomy and thalidomide those are matters which are still being considered by the Minister for Health and he will...

Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There is no promised legislation on this, but the Government has been very clear that it is not ignoring and has not ignored the needs of people. In the case of the Magdalens, we published the report and responded to it. The Quirke process is now in place and we await its completion. An undertaking was given to look at the situation in regard to the Bethany Home and that is being done.

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: ...apology and to provide a tangible expression of our regret and acknowledgement of the wrong that was done. We want to work with you, and we ask you to work with us. Today is not the end for the Magdalen survivors. No apology, no matter now sincere, can ever erase what happened. We cannot turn back the clock and undo what was done to so many. What we can do is acknowledge the wrong,...

Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The intention is that the legislation will be published this session. I do not have a date for the report of the group looking at the Magdalene situation but I know progress is being made. The question of the detail of the legislation can be debated when the legislation comes into the House.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ...woman President. It is also the day on which the Irish Human Rights Commission called on the Government to immediately establish a statutory inquiry into the treatment of women and girls in the Magdalen laundries. Does the Government intend to accede to the commission's request to establish such an inquiry?

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (11 Jun 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: ...board or their eligibility to apply to it. They must not be failed a second time. We must look again at some of institutions that were excluded from the remit of the redress board, including the Magdalene Laundries and other smaller institutions. The victims' concerns that incarceration in these institutions could be regarded as leaving them with some sort of criminal records must be...