Search for magdalene speaker:Marian Harkin (KildareStreet.com)

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023): Marian Harkin: ...for being themselves. In that context, I raised an issue this morning with the Taoiseach about the urgent need to preserve all private and public records and information relating to residents of Magdalen laundries. These records are the life story of these women - women who were silenced, women who were incarcerated and women whose labour profited others. The last piece of...
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023): Marian Harkin: ...Women's Day, as it happens, for a commitment from this Government to bring forward legislation, and it needs to be emergency legislation, to ensure records and all relevant documents relating to Magdalen laundries and residents of those institutions are preserved and protected and that it would be a criminal offence to alter, destroy or dispose of any of these documents. There is an...

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