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

Colm Keaveney: I want to support the Bill which, in essence, will provide free health services for women who were residents of the Magdalen laundries and similar laundries that were operated such as St. Mary's Training Centre, Stanhope Street, Dublin. The Bill also provides that such women will not be required to pay the statutory charge for public acute hospital inpatient services and that the ex...

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

Colm Keaveney: ...at least a partial measure of justice to survivors whose circumstances are not provided for in the appendices. Given the large body of records and research that has already been gathered on the Magdalen laundries, it is inexplicable as to why we would turn our faces from these people. Even at this late stage, I would ask the Minister to consider including that data. The treatment of...

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

Colm Keaveney: ...have to be seen in the broader context of this country's fondness for confining large numbers of our population in various institutions, including the mother and baby homes, industrial schools, Magdalen laundries and mental health facilities. I am told that at some point in our history, more people were locked up as a proportion of our population than in the Soviet Union. As a society,...