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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...of Education and other Departments are taking this very seriously. It was proposed by the Christine Buckley Centre that a health amendment card, designated for survivors of institutional abuse, Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes, be established. Could that be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Joan Burton is not here but I recall I was Government Whip when Enda Kenny apologised to those in the Magdalen laundries and I saw what that apology meant to a huge number of survivors. I and everybody in the Chamber was very moved by the survivors and their families. Only in the years prior to the apology had survivors opened up to their own families. There is a huge pride among many who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I listened to the representatives of the survivors of the Magdalen laundries and the Government at the time. Are there many family members of survivors who have passed who carry that mantle, represent their loved ones and fight on their behalf?

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Paul Kehoe: ...Steps have been taken to reform our political system at local and national level. The Government has faced up to some of the most tragic episodes of our past, such as abuse in institutions and the Magdalen laundries, in an open and honest way. These are just a few of the achievements under the leadership of our Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, and this Government. The Opposition wants to...