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Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Report (3 Nov 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: ...the Health Amendment Act (HAA) description of services for the purposes of illustrating the type and extent of the primary and community services which he recommended should be available to the Magdalen women. He found that the health status of Magdalen women was diverse in nature, that not all the HAA services might be directly relevant to the Magdalen women and that any comparable set...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (22 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: Eligibility for health services for the Magdalen women is provided by the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 which sets out the primary and community health services available in Ireland, free of charge, effective from 1 July 2015. The services are as follows: GP services; prescribed drugs, medicines, aids and appliances; dental, ophthalmic and aural services; home...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (22 Sep 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: .... In his report, Mr Justice Quirke recommended, inter alia, that legislation be introduced to give effect to his recommendation on the provision of a comprehensive suite of health services to Magdalen women. The Health (Amendment) Act 1996 provides health services to persons who contracted hepatitis C in the State from a blood product or blood transfusion. It should be noted, however,...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (14 Jul 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: ...have received lump sum payments to a value of approximately €20 million to date. Mr. Justice Quirke also recommended that legislation be introduced regarding the provision of health services to Magdalen women. To that end, the Minister for Justice and Equality brought the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 through the Oireachtas. The Act sets out the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (9 Jul 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: .... The Department of Health and the HSE have focused on implementing the Act for the majority of women living in Ireland. In the response to a Question put down by the Deputy on 7th July on the Magdalene Laundry survivors living outside Ireland, I stated that the HSE had corresponded directly with all the women living in Ireland who are eligible to avail of the services. I have since...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Report (27 Jan 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: In his report, Judge Quirke was of the opinion that Magdalen women should be provided with access to a comprehensive suite of health services. He specified GP services, prescribed drugs, medicines, aids and appliances, dental, ophthalmic, aural, home support, home nursing, counselling, chiropody and physiotherapy services and formed the opinion that the health provisions should operate in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (2 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: ...of the Attorney General are currently working to draft, as a priority, legislation which will provide for a range of health and personal social services to be made available to former residents of Magdalen laundries. It is the intention that the legislation will encompass the comprehensive range of services identified by Judge Quirke in his report as being required to address the health...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: One-Parent Family Payments (19 Jun 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: ...on behalf of the Minister for Social Protection. The matter is not dealt with in my reply but, given that the Senator raised it, I must point out that 80% of the women who were incarcerated in Magdalen laundries did not have babies. They are always very anxious to make that point. While some of them did give birth, the majority did not do so. It is important to clarify the position in...

Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: ...where clinicians, managers, professional staff and service-users have worked to move away from this institutional model of care? Have we learned nothing from our past? We have recently dealt with residential homes, Magdalen laundries and old and remote psychiatric hospitals. I heard a Deputy in the other House earlier talking about allowing people wander the fields. Surely not. We...

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: ...by the standards of the day. In 1952, there were considerably more than 100 non-hospital maternity homes. There also were other Protestant institutions very similar to Bethany Home, such as the Magdalen Asylum for Penitent Females in Lower Leeson Street. Indeed when Bethany Home closed down, some of its funding passed on to the Leeson Street institution. The members of the Bethany...

Seanad: Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (27 Feb 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I am pleased to have the opportunity to discuss with the Seanad the final report of the interdepartmental committee set up to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries, which was published on 5 February last. Much has been said since then and much has happened. For me personally, the report has been the culmination of a long journey going back more than ten years...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: ...: “welcomes the publication of the final report of the inter-departmental committee chaired by former Senator Martin McAleese, which was set up by Government to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries; notes that: — the current Government was the first Government to take action on this important issue by commissioning the McAleese report; ...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“acknowledges that the untold story of those women who were in Magdalene laundries needs to be listened to with compassion and the facts about the Magdalene laundries need to be established and made public; is conscious of the need to respect the rights of all concerned;...

Seanad: Symphysiotomy: Statements (16 May 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: ..., we have had to deal with many legacy issues. This is one of the most horrendous issues we have come across. We are desperately trying to grapple and come to terms with other issues like the Magdalene laundries and the Bethany Home. The Walsh report will be with stakeholders, the most significant of whom are the women involved, by the end of the month. We must then have a two-month...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (15 Mar 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: ...time. They included male and female Deputies. We cannot continue to pretend this did not happen. I was interested in Deputy Catherine Murphy's contribution. She referred to the inquiry into the Magdalen laundries. We have been left with historical and legacy issues which should have been dealt with several years ago but which were not. We are now coming to grips with these. I have...

Seanad: Fair Deal Nursing Home Scheme: Statements (Resumed) (16 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: ...people no longer have to fear this if they must go into institutional care. We have had a love affair with institutions in this country and those we have loved include schools, industrial homes, Magdalene laundries and care homes. There is an amazing point there. I am very conflicted on this issue for the simple reason that I now spend half my week trying to get back into the community...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: It is just over a month since the Irish Human Rights Commission reported on the Magdalene laundries issue, and its findings were significant. Does the Tánaiste have any plans to put in place an investigation or to respond in any way to the Irish Human Rights Commission's report on the Magdalene laundries? We are talking about a small community here-----

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (17 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will outline his response to representations made by the group, Justice for the Magdalenes; if he intends to act on the recommendation from the Irish Human Rights Commission that a statutory mechanism be established to investigate matters advanced by the Justice of the Magdalenes and, in appropriate cases, to grant redress...

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: While all of us are horrified at the prospect of a statutory inquiry, in the case of the Magdalene laundries most of the work has been done. The evidence is irrefutable and the State must apologise to the women in question.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Yes. Will the Tánaiste indicate where she can direct the former detainees of Magdalene Laundries and Bethany Homes in order to get some redress in terms of an apology-----