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- Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)
Derek Nolan: ...facility for a long time in order to offer an improved service to more families because the service is under pressure due to capacity constraints. The Sisters of Mercy who used to operate the Magdalen laundry at the site in Foster Street have handed over that former convent building to COPE. It will be a wonderful recognition of the hurt that was caused for that premises to be used for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Derek Nolan: ...Mr. Purcell is implementing a policy decision. I heard him say it is a humane system which serves a purpose and fits in, but those are the type of things we said about the residential institutions and Magdalen laundries over the years. When we look back, it will be with severe scorn. I am not directing that criticism at the Secretary General personally, but I must react to the...
- Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)
Derek Nolan: ...informing myself to the best of my ability and forming a judgment, yet there are some topics, regardless of how much I read or how much research I do, that I feel I can never fully understand. The Magdalene issue is one such topic. Some facts are known and they are almost incomprehensible. More than 30,000 women and girls were incarcerated in those institutions, enduring forced labour,...
- Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)
Derek Nolan: ...informing myself to the best of my ability and forming a judgment, yet there are some topics, regardless of how much I read or how much research I do, that I feel I can never fully understand. The Magdalene issue is one such topic. Some facts are known and they are almost incomprehensible. More than 30,000 women and girls were incarcerated in those institutions, enduring forced labour,...