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Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2014)

Luke Flanagan: ...pool for the month of June, for the first time since 1945. That was the reward. I know the council would have closed it completely but that it would not have been able to take the backlash. That is the reward. We hear apologies in this Chamber for what was done to people in the Magdalen laundries and various institutions. The reality is that if someone working there today blew the...

Private Members' Business - Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...about great people such as Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela and the type of people who stand up for themselves. We only hear about them from the establishment when what they have done is acceptable and everyone else is cheering them on. We hear in the Chamber how we are so sorry for the Magdalen laundries, what happened to the women who were tortured by symphysiotomy and numerous other...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...right way, I will certainly support it. We cannot have a continuation of the current situation, no matter how sensitive, where things are done behind closed doors. Things were done behind closed doors in the Magdalen laundries, the church, politics and every walk of Irish life and it caused nothing but problems. If the right balance is struck in respect of thein camerarule, which is...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...why I think the Minister should step down is because of the way he has treated the whistleblowers. During yesterday's debate, Government TDs came in to tell us about what the Minister did concerning apologies for the Magdalen laundries, et cetera. Let me remind the Minister that if whistleblowers had been listened to in the Magdalen laundries, instead of being chucked back in there by...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...instead of giving them this money they do not deserve to be let off? It is funny and very sad at the same time. Members heard a fantastic speech the other day by an Taoiseach, Deputy Kenny, on what went on in the Magdalen laundries. However, I find it somewhat strange that one apologises on one day and then goes on to abuse again the following day, by which I mean we must make choices...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Feb 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...that I am rather disappointed with it. Given the short time available to me I will read from one of the testimonies, that of a woman named Josephine Meade. She said she was in several different Magdalen laundries in Cork, Galway and Dublin. She said the worst was the Mercy convent in Galway. I lived on the site of that convent many years after it was knocked down. She said the nuns in...

Other Questions: Penalty Points System (6 Feb 2013)

Luke Flanagan: People are seeking an apology for the Magdalen laundries.

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: ...one do. These people need justice and they need it before it is too late. The longer we wait, the less likely it is that they will get justice. I started reading the report produced by Justice for Magdalenes and I must say it is very hard work to read it. If it is hard work to read the report, it must have been absolute hell to exist as those people were forced to exist. I consider...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: ...one do. These people need justice and they need it before it is too late. The longer we wait, the less likely it is that they will get justice. I started reading the report produced by Justice for Magdalenes and I must say it is very hard work to read it. If it is hard work to read the report, it must have been absolute hell to exist as those people were forced to exist. I consider...