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Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: ...'s predecessor, the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Coveney, there were no new homes, no children playing, no builders, no diggers, no hoarding and no construction. There was nothing. Down the road from that the Magdalen laundry site in Sean MacDermott Street is another example of the State's lack of commitment and ambition to deliver affordable homes. It is a 2 acre site less than half a...

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

Darragh O'Brien: ...one wants this process to be efficient and to not drag on forever. The Minister of State already has made this point of which I also am mindful. I refer to a specific request from the Justice for Magdalenes organisation, which I am sure it also asked of the Minister of State. It is that we need to do work to ensure that when payments are made to ladies who are on existing State benefits...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the fulsome apology the Taoiseach made on behalf of the Government and the Irish people for the treatment of the ladies in the Magdalen laundries. It was welcome, fulsome and honest, and it is certainly a day on which we can now move on to make redress in the financial and other ways required by these ladies who suffered so gravely in these institutions. I want to put on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: -----that she is looking to bring it to the Cabinet today. Why is she doing that? Is she trying to slip it under the radar when there are other major issues, such as the Magdalen laundries, being debated in these Houses? I ask that without further delay, the Minister, Deputy Burton, should come to the House for a proper debate on the recommendations of the Mangan report, which she should...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Order of Business, which I will not do this morning, asking the Minister to come to the House to address this issue. Third, and most important, I wish to raise the report published yesterday on the Magdalen laundries. As I said yesterday, successive Governments over the last 40 years have failed these ladies. There is no question about that. All parties that have been in government over...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: ...he came into the Seanad and who is a man of the highest integrity, a gentleman and a pleasure to work with. I hope the work he did that will come to fruition today in the investigation into the Magdalen laundries and the terrible blot on the State for many years will bring finality and justice to the ladies who were so badly treated by the State and successive Governments. Martin's track...