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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (28 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Magdalen Commission Scheme is administered by my Department on behalf of the Department of Justice and Equality. The scheme enables the women over the age of 66 who qualify to receive the equivalent of the maximum rate of State pension contributory for the remainder of their lives. The current maximum rate of State pension contributory is €233.30 per week. If a person is already...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015,inter alia, provided for a range of primary and community health services to be made available to Magdalen women by the HSE without charge in Ireland. In connection with Magdalen woman living abroad, the Minister for Primary Care, Social Care (Disabilities & Older People) and Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch, in December...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Magdalen Laundries (29 Nov 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Department of Social Protection processes an ex-gratia payment/administrative scheme, under the recommendations of the Magdalen Commission Report of Mr Justice John Quirke, on behalf of the Department of Justice and Equality. This scheme provides for payments equalling the maximum rate of State pension (contributory), currently set at €233.30 per week, to eligible customers aged...

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

Leo Varadkar: The Department of Health and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs were represented on the Magdalen Laundries Interdepartmental Committee chaired by Dr. Martin McAleese. I am aware that the Health Service Executive provided a draft report on the Bessboro Mother and Baby Home to the secretariat of the Committee. The representatives of the two Departments received a copy of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...ahead with it, not just so people can have access to records but also in order that the records can be studied. We and other countries can learn from that. With regard to survivors of the Magdalen institutions, they have received an enhanced medical card from the Government. It is not the standard medical card, it is a better one. It is true it is not the same as the HAA card, but...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: There were many questions asked and I will do my best to answer as many as I can. With regard to the Magdalen redress scheme, the Government accepted the Ombudsman's report last May. The Minister for Justice and Equality and I met the Ombudsman after he gave evidence at the joint committee. I was struck by his evidence. He is a mild mannered man, not given to condemnation, and when...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...Dáil, by the Taoiseach on behalf of the State. In February 2013, the then Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny, issued an apology on behalf of the Government in Dáil Éireann to women who were resident in Magdalen laundries for hurt done to them and any stigma suffered by reason of their residence in those institutions. The Magdalen ex gratiascheme, as recommended by Mr. Justice John...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...so than other governments have done or governments around the world have done, we have put a huge amount of time, care and resources into putting right some of the wrongs of the past, whether it is Magdalen laundries, mother and baby institutions, mica and pyrite, or the apartment block defects. The Government does have a responsibility to do what is right and just, but it also has a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (19 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...for a broad range of health services and benefits for women who qualify under the Department of Justice and Equality Restorative Justice Scheme for women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries and similar institutions. The HSE is finalising the arrangements for access to the health services provided for under the Act and will contact the women who qualify when these...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jul 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...is "Yes". It may not be specifically referenced in the programme for Government, but the new Government will want to honour the commitments the last Government made to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. Memorialisation is part of that. What form or shape it will take will have to discussed, especially with the survivors. This issue is one of the responsibilities of the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the book Deputy Bacik referred to, but I have not yet had time to read it, so I cannot comment on the assertions made by the authors or adjudicate on them. In relation to records relating to Magdalen laundries, major work is currently under way to establish a central repository of records within the national centre for research and remembrance. The repository will encompass records...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme or to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries are also disregarded. These compensation awards and payments were disregarded over the years as a result of Government decisions and the enactment of corresponding legislation....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions Data (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 128 and 129 together. I am advised by the Minister for Justice and Equality that the scheme of ex gratia payments to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen laundries and two similar institutions is still open and will be for the foreseeable future. In view of this, it is difficult to estimate the final number of participants in the redress...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...Cabinet accepted her recommendations today. I would like to give the Minister the opportunity to outline her recommendations in detail at 3 p.m. when she is able to do so. With regard to the Magdalen redress scheme, the Government's intention is to comply with and implement the Ombudsman's recommendations on the scheme, which is to extend the scheme to a wider group of women who did...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Urban Renewal Schemes (11 Jul 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...groups to scope out space requirement for the new facility. The city council is also engaging with the community and local councillors on the sale and redevelopment of the convent lands at the former Magdalen laundry on Sean McDermott Street. The proposed plans are for a hotel on the site as well as housing units, which could be designated for older people, and would bring much needed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...place, even though the case was lost in court. Symphysiotomy is one example of that. The Government also decided to put in place compensation schemes in respect of mother and baby institutions, Magdalen laundries, mica, pyrite and apartment block defects, despite the fact that there was never a finding against the State with regard to those matters. What is the common good? The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (10 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...product or blood transfusion. In his report, Mr Justice Quirke recommended, inter alia, that legislation be introduced to give effect to his recommendation on the provision of health services to Magdalen women. To this end, the Minister for Justice has published the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014. This Bill is to make provision for the making available...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...establish a national centre for research and remembrance. Last March, Government approved a plan for a national centre for research and remembrance which will be located on the site of the former Magdalen laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin 1. The centre will stand as a site of conscience and will be a national memorial to honour equally all those who were resident in industrial...

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

Leo Varadkar: ...references have been indexed onto a specialised ‘names index’ along with other relevant information. The Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State Involvement with the Magdalen Laundries considered the routes of entry to the Magdalen Laundries, including from Mother and Baby Homes, and my Department and the HSE conducted searches of retained records for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme or to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries are also disregarded in social welfare means assessments. All other compensation or court awards which are not provided for in social welfare legislation are...