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Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...to pay compensation for the abuse she endured as a pupil. Many elderly women who were victims of symphysiotomy are still fighting for truth and compensation. Let us not forget the women victims of the Magdalen laundries or the mother and baby homes, or Savita Halappanavar and countless others. We must also recall that the State forces many victims, particularly women, of anomalies,...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...increased from 548 women in 2010 to 1,438 in 2015. Do we want this to continue or do we want a mature society, tolerant and compassionate, open and inclusive and based on equality? Alternatively, are the attitudes from the time of the industrial schools, the Magdalen laundries and the mother and baby homes to prevail, when women were treated as chattels with no rights or protections? If...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...and intolerant. Women were written out of history. Their status in this State was confirmed in the 1937 Constitution, which provided that the place of women is "in the home". Women who strayed beyond the so-called norms were sent to Magdalen laundries or mother and baby homes, where they endured unbelievable hardship and were denied everything by a State that condemned...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...very clear mandate to deal with the issues of, for example, the homeless who remain homeless as we sit here, the families in mortgage distress, the victims of the recent flooding who have still to get redress and others in rural Ireland who have been let down. I received a call today from a Magdalen laundries survivor who had not yet received a full pension, despite assurances from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: ..., equality and inclusivity. Lest we be too pious about all of this, there are lots of reminders of religious fundamentalism, including Catholic fundamentalism, in the scandals of the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and the mistreatment of women. The Government established a commission of investigation into mother and baby homes and certain related matters. The commission...

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...and Equality, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, promised legislation last month to reform the current direct provision regime, which he described as "inhuman". He compared it to the treatment of women in the Magdalen laundries. I have been in some of these centres, certainly the one in my constituency. It was not a pleasant experience. Members of the Joint Committee on...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...raised elements of this during Taoiseach's questions, I was unsatisfied with the answers he gave. I am reflecting on the fact that in 2013 the Taoiseach apologised unreservedly to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries, said it was a national disgrace and said he had put in place a process to help and support the women. The Bill to facilitate this was published before Christmas and it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...and knowledge is that it has not been and I ask him to clarify this. If it has not been included in the commission's terms of reference, as is my belief, it should be. With regard to the Magdalen laundries, as the Taoiseach said, the women concerned were held in horrific conditions. They were slaves. They should be part of this important investigation in their own right and treated as...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...be a good start, the fact is that they are inadequate because they fail to ensure, for example, that the commission's terms of reference will include the Westbank Orphanage and some of the other Protestant institutions, as well as the Magdalen laundries. There is clearly a view among the survivors, for example, the Magdalenes, that what the Government has put in place does not match the...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...That did not happen. We need an opportunity to debate these serious issues. Will the terms of reference include county homes, the Westbank Orphanage, some of the Protestant institutions and the Magdalen Laundries? There is an indication that others will be appointed to the commission. When can we expect to know who they might be? The same sex marriage and presidential election...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...of Fianna Fáil and of its leadership. A succession of damning reports, including the Ryan commission report, the Ferns inquiry report, the Cloyne report and the Murphy report and the scandal of the Magdalen laundries and the Bethany Home all exposed the extent to which the Catholic hierarchy and the Irish State and successive Governments made up of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...have been made aware of the results of a toxic political culture which existed in the State since its foundation and in which women and children were denied their rights. It is evident in the sorry saga of scandal which includes the Magdalen laundries, Bethany Home, the mother and baby homes, the illegal trafficking of children, child abuse in church and State institutions and the unequal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...she was a woman. While it might seem half-humorous, none the less it shows how her rights were contravened. That is the type of attitude that allowed what occurred in the mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries and malpractices like symphysiotomy to continue. Perhaps there is an opportunity for a national conversation on these big matters and on the need for equality for all...

Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...to commence before the end of this year. Is this acceptable to the Taoiseach? Is that not an unduly long lead-in time? The Taoiseach will be aware that Archbishop Martin has said the inquiry should include the Magdalen laundries. Can he give that commitment? Will the county homes, as requested by the campaign of survivors group, also be included? What is the timetable and format for...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...subjection of children to medical trials without the consent of their mothers. We believe the commission should be established before the summer recess. We welcome the commitment yesterday that Bethany Home is belatedly included in the commission of investigation. However, other institutions, such as the Magdalen laundries, should also be included. I commend the efforts of Catherine...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: Tá ceist agam faoi reachtaíocht atá fórógraithe agus ceist eile agam maidir leis an redress scheme for the Magdalen laundries, which I will ask first. The redress scheme was set up to ensure the victims of the laundries were given their full medical entitlements and that they were compensated for the decades of unpaid slave labour they endured. There are many...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: In regard to the Magdalen laundries redress scheme, it may be that some of the victims have been able to avail of the scheme but there is a number who feel obstacles are being placed in their way and some have not got their full medical entitlements. They have to undertake a convoluted process. Will the Taoiseach ask someone to review that and bring back a report?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Gerry Adams: ...to the issue of the Bethany Home survivors. I thank the Taoiseach for his answer to my earlier questions. When he made a very commendable acknowledgement of and apology to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries in this Chamber, it had been preceded by a less than sure-footed initial response by him. While it may be wrong for me to make any presumption, I have always presumed this was...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: In February the Taoiseach gave a heart-felt apology on behalf of the State to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries for the hurt done to them. He rightly told the women that they were blameless and I have no doubt he was moved by their life stories when he met them. For the women, that apology for the time they were incarcerated in a brutal regime overseen by the State was a turning...

Order of Business (21 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: Regarding the Magdalen laundries redress scheme, the Taoiseach might recall following his apology to the women who were enslaved in these laundries that the Minister for Justice and Equality committed to having a comprehensive scheme of supports for the surviving women. Mr. Justice Quirke was to examine and advise on the scheme’s mechanisms and report back to the Government within...