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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Advocacy Service (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to refer Magdalen survivors living at a location (details supplied) to the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities; the degree of engagement his Department has had with the service and the nursing home in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10881/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (1 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts that will be made to include those persons who were detained in the Magdalen laundries or mother and baby homes and who are dissatisfied with the redress scheme; if the proposed meeting will be confined to those who contacted the Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18600/18]

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ...cannot be neglected simply because the State, once again, is not prepared to uphold its responsibilities to the people left to the mercy of those institutions. I deal with some women who were in a Magdalen laundry. Whatever torture they were put through, I find similar torture in terms of getting supports for them. It is not enough for the Government to come into the House and make an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...the fact that the legal and health care systems in the UK cater for a significant number of Irish women, and has done so for decades. Given our experience with mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries, we are not in a position to be shouting from the rooftop in terms of how women have been treated in this country. I want to ask Mr. Thompson about future proofing. I take the point...

National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ..., the former director of the National Archives, is speaking on this issue in Maynooth tonight. She wants to open the administrative records of the mother and baby homes, industrial schools and Magdalen laundries for journalists and scholars. The records can be anonymised when digitised and only people who need to see the individual record or have a personal interest in it can see it. We...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: To go back to another point in respect of expenditure of the Magdalen fund, there was an underspend in 2014. The explanation given for that underspend was that fewer new applications were received in 2015 than was expected. A number of applications could not be processed as further investigation was necessary in order to make a determination in those cases. In some cases there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (23 Jun 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to encourage relevant religious orders to contribute to the Magdalen restitution fund; the date of the last contact her Department had with each of these orders; the amount religious orders have contributed to date, if any; the nature of this contribution, if any; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17772/16]

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...of the mother and baby homes scheme, is not part of this, whereby one would be sure the records would be obtained. I know this would be a huge undertaking. It is part of the reason I believe the Magdalen laundries should be included, even for this reason alone. The UN Committee against Torture has openly criticised four religious orders and the Vatican for their hesitance to produce the...

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

Catherine Murphy: ...it is also about people who were fostered and used, for example, in agricultural labour and so on. The flexibility of the terms of reference needs to cater for that, as they did in the case of the Magdalen laundries. The UN report called it when we could not call it by stating people were incarcerated in the Magdalen laundries. The report pulled no punches stating they were places of...

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

Catherine Murphy: ...To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the terms of reference for the commission of investigation into mothers and baby homes and certain related matters do not cover former Magdalen institutions and adoptions which occurred at State hospitals during the relevant periods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2201/15]

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

Catherine Murphy: ...were excluded. That said, there are a great number of positive aspects both to the commission that has been set up and its terms of reference. However, I my question focuses specifically on the Magdalen institutions and the adoptions that occurred in State hospitals because it is to be hoped that during this process, there will be the prospect of people being reconnected. This is an...

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

Catherine Murphy: ..., how is it likely that such work will take place? The second aspect on which I wish to ask a question is that I do not believe Members would be in the Chamber talking about the inclusion of the Magdalen laundries had there been a satisfactory outcome or had it been seen to have been a satisfactory outcome to the redress scheme. The compellability aspect of this inquiry is welcome. It is...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...Deputies would like to discuss. Deputy Pringle was particularly determined that the House would debate the issue of direct provision. All Deputies will remember the night we had survivors of the Magdalen laundries in the Gallery. It was an unusual occasion because we stood up and applauded these women for surviving what the State did to them. The State also has survivors of industrial...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Sep 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on concerns that there may be a serious gap in the extent of records available for persons going through the Magdalen redress scheme whereby those former residents who were not the legal responsibility of the institutions concerned; that is they did not come through the courts and under legislation they remained the legal...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (18 Sep 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent of compliance among religious orders and institutions in relation to the transfer of records and archives relating to the Magdalene laundry redress process; the orders which have yet to comply; the number of requests that have been made in each case; the options that are available to the redress board to ensure that records are made...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (18 Sep 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 142. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the State's duty to uphold the constitutional right to education in cases where individuals who were committed to Magdalene Laundries were not considered the de jure legal responsibility of the State and therefore may have been categorised as voluntarily institutionalised, but who none the less were, according to the McAleese...

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

Catherine Murphy: ...resourced and properly run. When we consider how under-resourced the National Archives of Ireland is, it will not be possible to do that there. I am dealing with a person who is a survivor of the Magdalen laundries. She has been through the whole process and because the records do not support what she is saying, the institution's records are what are believed. Going through that has...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...very well. This week's damning review of our human rights practices by the United Nations Human Rights Committee makes for grim reading but it is hardly surprising. Our failure in regard to the Magdalen laundries survivors, the symphysiotomy survivors, those who spent time in mother and baby homes and those who were victims of clerical child abuse is shameful. However, we stand to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Records (17 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...payments made by the State to certain religious institutions in return for those institutions taking individuals deemed in need of institutional care such as that provided by mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries, children's and orphans' homes and related institutions; if he will undertake to determine the fullest extent to which these records exist; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (17 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...to payments made by the State to religious institutions in return for those institutions taking individuals deemed in need of institutional care such as that provided by mother and baby homes, Magdalene Laundries, children's and orphans homes and related institutions; if he will undertake to determine the fullest extent to which these records exist; and if he will make a statement on the...