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Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: ...for old men", then the legacy and more recent issues mentioned by the Deputy would suggest that it was positively dangerous for girls and women. We have had the experience of the ignoring of the Magdalene women for many years. We have had the Government's establishment of the surgical symphysiotomy payment scheme because of the treatment of women. The Government also set up the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: ...many victims of sexual abuse there have been over the years in the primary school system. It is no more than the secondary school system, I assume. We had the redress scheme, the case of all the Magdalenes - not that there was sexual abuse in the vast majority of cases - and the mother and baby home report which will come before the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. We will have...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: This is another distressing case, one of many that have come to light during the years. I would like the Deputy to understand that I listened to the women involved very carefully in the case of the Magdalen laundries, an issue which had gone on for over 60 years and nobody had done anything about it. I listened to women as part of the LGBT group who expressed the fear, loathing and...

Establishment of a Statutory Commission of Investigation into a Foster Home in the South East: Statements (2 Feb 2016)

Enda Kenny: ...home in the south east. When this Government came to office, we set out to undo the damage and heal some of the hurt inflicted on the most vulnerable in our society. One of those groups was the Magdalene women, the unseen launderers of our country's stains and secrets. We issued a State apology to those women and established a restorative justice scheme in June 2013. When I met them in...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Tell me about the Magdalens. Tell me about the institutional sexual abuse and what this Government has done to try to help the victims-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am not going down the road of electioneering at this stage. For several years we have had to deal with issues such as pyrite, Priory Hall, symphysiotomy and the Magdalen laundries. The Deputy knows that the hepatitis C compensation scheme will continue for 50 years in some cases. The priority has to be delivery of front-line services to those who need medical attention. The other day...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Magdalen Bill published before Christmas will be taken here in the next few weeks. It has been very well accepted and supported by the vast majority of the women who went through the Magdalen laundries. As I said earlier, the Government is fully committed to implementing all Mr. Justice Quirke's recommendations. The relief and acceptance on the part of those women of the State's...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...included on the list and that list has been published and is available. The terms of reference are important. The issue of Bethany homes and Westbank Orphanage has been raised and dealt with. The Magdalen laundries were not specified in the terms of reference in regard to mother and baby homes. However, clear criteria were used to define them, including having the main function of...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...and I can confirm that for her. I should remind the House that this was a matter that was neglected for over 60 years. This Government listened very carefully to those women who were in the Magdalen laundries. We asked Mr. Martin McAleese to prepare a report on this and subsequently appointed Mr. Justice Quirke to draw up an appropriate scheme for the Magdalen women. The Government is...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...in the public domain but I hope I have clarified it for the Deputy and the women who were concerned now. In respect of the last portion of the Deputy's question concerning other women in Magdalen homes, elements of that are being addressed under the mother and baby homes commission of investigation that was set up by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, particularly in respect...

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

Enda Kenny: .... In my first speech here as Taoiseach, I spoke about how a wound heals from the edges in. We began immediately to put that healing process in place for our country. First for the women of the Magdalen laundries, then by looking after mothers and their babies by way of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. We took care of the families of Priory Hall and those living in...

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: ..., in a non-adversarial way, will deliver the payments promptly to the women involved. It is their right, individually, to accept or reject them. As Deputy Marueen O'Sullivan will recall, we had the same in the case of the Magdalen scheme, when there was a lot of legal advice that people should take a different route and ended up in adversarial positions, in particular, women who had...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...a people, we have been fractured and broken for long enough as a result of our national obsession with putting people, truth and reality out of sight. I refer to those who were incarcerated in the Magdalen laundries and who gave us blindingly white albs and snowy tablecloths, to the generations who slept on immaculate and guilty sheets and to the mother and baby homes, the industrial...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: .... I was in houses with people who had put together mortgages and then found buildings were disintegrating with pyrite. I met the residents in the unfortunate case at Priory Hall. I met the Magdalen laundries people here and in England and we dealt with them. We have put in place a compensation scheme for those who had to deal with symphisiotomy. We listened to the medical cards issues...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's question is serious. Why did the State deny its responsibility in respect of Magdalen laundries, Bethany Home and mother and baby homes and why did it not do something about symphysiotomy before this? This is a list of sensitive personal serious issues which have been left lying around in the country for up to 60 or 70 years. They are being dealt with now. I am not quite sure...

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: .... This will be administered by the State Claims Agency. Many of these women are now elderly and have been waiting for decades for closure. It is another element of what we have had to deal with, from Magdalens to mother and baby homes to all of these issues which have been lying around for years and not dealt with. It was absolutely barbaric treatment and I am glad that today it came...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...colleagues we were able to get some further funding for the Border region. The Deputy mentioned Bethany Home, which he and other Deputies raised here. At the time the consideration was in respect of Magdalen laundries. Since the revelations about the mother and baby home in Tuam and the extent of what happened there, the Government committed to the establishment of a commission of...

Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...Youth Affairs. I can inform the House that the Government this morning approved the drafting of a Bill to deal with the requirements for medical facilities and coverage for those women who were in Magdalen homes. A small number of them are resident in Britain and will be dealt with through the system there. The Minister for Justice and Equality was given authorisation today to move...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...occasions. Archbishop Jackson has written to me today about this matter. The question being examined was whether Bethany Home should be considered as part of the investigation and analysis of the Magdalen laundries. Bethany Home was clearly not a laundry. It is now one of a significant number of mother and baby homes that must be investigated. I have heard varying estimates as to the...

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's comment that the Government is neither sympathetic nor decent in respect of the work it does here. As pointed out with regard to the Magdalen laundries, Priory Hall and many other sensitive serious issues the Government has been sympathetic and decent.