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Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (27 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the medical card provision to survivors of the Magdalen laundries; the scope of its cover; the services it does not provide for; the similar provisions that apply in other cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28215/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Administration of Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme: Report of Ombudsman (31 Jan 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...purpose of today's engagement is to meet the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, to discuss his recent report, entitled Opportunity Lost, an investigation by the Ombudsman into the administration of the Magdalen restorative justice scheme. We will then be joined by officials of the Department of Justice and Equality to discuss their response to the report. I welcome Mr. Tyndall and his...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...; (6) St Kevin’s Institution, James Street, Dublin 8; (7) St Patrick’s Infant Dietetic Hospital, Temple Hill, Blackrock, Co. Dublin; (8) St Rita’s Nursing Home, Sandyford Road, Dublin 4; (9) The Nursery Rescue Society, Fermoy, Cork; (10) Westbank (Mayil) Orphanage, Co. Wicklow; (11) and any others as the Commission may identify during the course of its...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Minister, Deputy James Reilly, is the third Minister we have engaged with on this issue. While the number of homes to be addressed has increased from nine to 14, significant exclusions such as the Magdalen laundries and Westbank remain. We presented an extensive submission to the Minister with significant recommendations following continuous consultation with survivors and advocacy...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 111. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of all homes and institutions that were excluded from the proposed inquiry into mother and baby homes, including the Magdalene laundries and Westbank; the grounds on which these were excluded; the measures being put in place to ensure survivors of these excluded institutions, now all in their senior years, will be heard,...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...that the Minister would give the same answer would be wrong, but there we are. Given the reference to institutions that were not the subject of previous State address, it is more than sad that the Magdalen laundries will be excluded because of the McAleese report which was a huge disappointment for those who had gone though the Magdalen laundry experience. The Minister cannot be unaware...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: .... To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of all homes and institutions that were excluded from the proposed inquiry into mother and baby homes, including the Magdalene laundries and Westbank, County Wicklow; the grounds on which they were excluded; the measures being put in place to ensure that survivors of these excluded institutions, now all in...

Topical Issue Debate: Symphysiotomy Reports (26 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...particular case regarding this particular cohort of victims? It compares terribly with the State's position on the other cases I have instanced, such as hepatitis C, residential institutions and Magdalen laundries. It is intolerable this is the situation that applies. Even if Ms Justice Harding Clark were to apply her discretion, it is only an additional 20 days. In my opening...

Topical Issue Debate: Symphysiotomy Reports (26 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...payment scheme is due to close in eight days' time, yet victims of hepatitis C and the residential institutions had three years in which to apply for compensation. The redress scheme for the Magdalen women had no closing date for applications. However, in this instance, the survivors of symphysiotomy have been given an unprecedented period of 20 days. It has been said, and the Minister...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to make a supportive intervention following what Deputy Daly has already recorded. It is not only the Westbank orphanage but the Church of Ireland Magdalen home in Dublin as well. I strongly appeal to the Minister not to exclude any of those Protestant interests who have been campaigning for full inclusivity which, as the Minister is aware, I have argued for consistently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (13 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ..., as has happened in some of the tribunals in the past. I am keenly aware of and have strenuously emphasised to the Minister and his predecessors the importance of including the Bethany homes, the Magdalen laundries and the county homes. I am respectful of what the Minister may not yet be in a position to confirm but I ask him to expand on his intentions in relation to inclusiveness. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...? What years are to be covered from 1925 onwards? What institutions will be included? Will it include the Sisters of Bon Secours in Tuam and similar institutions, the Bethany Home and the Magdalen laundries? Will the Minister indicate clearly, in this first opportunity after the summer recess, exactly where this preparatory work is? Will it include address of the adoption practices,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...the terms of reference for the commission of inquiry? Will it include the address of the various mother and baby homes, not only the Tuam institution and others, but also the Bethany Home and the Magdalen laundries? What practices will be addressed regarding the years that are to be focused on? Will the Minister clarify exactly which years are to be addressed in the investigation? We...

Interdepartmental Report on the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (17 Jul 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...". The report of the inter-departmental group sets out a roadmap which, in our view, does not go far enough. The inquiry should not be confined to the nine institutions listed in the report. County homes and Magdalen laundries should definitely be included. The issues of adoptions, involving both Catholic and Protestant institutions, and of vaccination trials should also be included....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Jul 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...in the document refers to nine specific locations. I welcome the fact that the Bethany Home is included in that list of nine. However, I do not believe that the reference to the county homes and Magdalen laundries as part of a mapping exercise across a range of settings will be adequate by any stretch of the imagination. I believe that the county homes and the Magdalen laundries must be...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...in the so-called care of religious orders and other church institutions in the five decades from the 1920s to the 1970s were treated as the outcasts of society and as non-people. We have seen fully revealed the horrors of the industrial schools for boys and young men and of the Magdalen laundries for girls and young women. We know something of the regime endured by young mothers and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...not just for their presentations but their work in the preparation of these submissions. This is an important area of health care and I welcome the fact we are addressing it once again. Ms Magdalen Rogers set out clearly the significant shortcomings in the provision of neurological care, including long waiting lists for access to specialists, inadequate access to multidisciplinary...

Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...children. This links the eras of religious and secular unconcern toward the vulnerable. In each era the State had or has a responsibility. This responsibility to former residents of the Bethany children and of Magdalen institutions has yet to be acknowledged through some form of redress. Though one institution was Protestant and the other Roman Catholic, the State facilitated a...

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...inflicted. This outstanding issue of truth and justice for women who were mutilated in the Irish hospital system is just as grave as the scandal of institutional child sexual abuse or the ordeal of women in Magdalen laundries. In all of these cases, the injuries and wrongs done to the women and children concerned was compounded by concealment, lies, denials and decades of silence from...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...State in its duty of care to women and children for several decades. I listened with despair to the Taoiseach and the Minister citing statistics from the report regarding the committals to the Magdalen laundries, as if these somehow absolved or partially absolved the State from its responsibilities. They seemed to seize eagerly on the rather questionable finding in the report that the...