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

Dermot Ahern: As I have indicated to the House on more than one occasion, my Department has met with representatives of Justice for the Magdalenes during which there has been an exchange of views. My Department has offered - and will continue to offer - every assistance possible to allow access to the limited available records in the normal way. It behoves all of us to have regard to the age profile of...

Written Answers — Redress Schemes: Redress Schemes (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Magdalen Laundries were private, religious run institutions without any legislative or State mandate for their general operation. As I have previously informed the House, the vast majority of females who entered or were placed in Magdalen Laundries did so without any direct involvement of the State. It may be helpful to the Deputy to know that my Department's research indicates that a...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions: Residential Institutions (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy will be aware that the Magdalen Laundries were private, religious run institutions without any legislative or State mandate for their general operation. As I have already informed the House previously the vast majority of females who entered or were placed in Magdalen Laundries did so without any direct involvement of the State. My Department's research indicates that a small...

Written Answers — Departmental Records: Departmental Records (27 May 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The majority of females who entered or were placed in Magdalen Laundries in the period did so without any direct involvement of the State. Magdalen laundries were not State institutions and their records are a matter for the individual religious congregations concerned. A small proportion of entrants to Magdalen Laundries came through the criminal justice system. While my Department,...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (13 May 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Research has indicated that a small proportion of entrants to Magdalen laundries came through the criminal justice system. Under the Probation of Offenders Act 1907, a person found to have committed a criminal offence may be made subject to a probation order under which the offender is released on entering a recognizance to be of good behaviour and subject to conditions. The duration of the...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (19 Jan 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I can advise the Deputy that following a request for a meeting, officials from my Department met with representatives of Justice for Magdalenes on the 14th of December, 2009. There was an exchange of information and my officials are pursuing some of the issues raised. My officials have also been in touch with the Department of Education and Science following that meeting. It is the Courts...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (19 Jan 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I can advise the Deputy that following a request for a meeting, officials from my Department met with representatives of Justice for Magdalenes on the 14th of December, 2009. In response to points raised, my officials have undertaken some research into the matter. The Deputy will appreciate that the issue predates the foundation of the State and the historical records available are not...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (19 Jan 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 549 and 550 together. I can advise the Deputy that my Department does not hold records that would indicate the number of women who were sent to Magdalen Laundries since the foundation of the State. There are incomplete records held by my Department and in the archives relating to payments made in respect of persons remanded to St. Mary Magdalen Asylum, Sean...

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I understand that arrangements were occasionally made under which a female convicted of a criminal offence might be offered the choice of going to a Magdalen laundry rather than serving a prison sentence. Such arrangements had no statutory basis. A person charged with a criminal offence may in certain circumstances be remanded in custody by the courts pending trial or sentencing. The...