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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (4 Jul 2018)
Simon Harris: ...community health services (and benefits) in Ireland for women who qualify under the Department of Justice & Equality Restorative Justice Scheme for women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalene Laundries and similar institutions. The RWRCI Act provides a statutory basis to grant a 2015A card to women who qualify under this Act. It therefore provides a statutory...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)
Simon Harris: ...doing so, we come face to face with our history - a history that continues to unfold and continues to hold up a mirror in which we sometimes do not like what we see, whether it is the damp cold of the Magdalen laundries creeping into our bones, or the sundered silence of mother and baby homes being broken, or the glimpses of what was an all too acceptable culture exposed by the Kerry...
- Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)
Simon Harris: ...place. I genuinely love this country, as I think we all do, and we are all very proud of it but I am ashamed of how it has treated women, particularly pregnant women. Others have referenced the Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes and the Kerry babies case, which are all different but all connected because they all relate to how we treated pregnant women.It is a terribly tragic and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (28 Feb 2017)
Simon Harris: The Quirke Report recommended that a provision of a comprehensive suite of health services be provided to the Magdalen Women. A specific medical card has been issued to these women so they can access the enhanced health services they require without charge. Although the Quirke Report did not make a recommendation that health services be provided to Magdalen women abroad, the Irish...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Report (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Harris: The Quirke Report recommended that a provision of a comprehensive suite of health services be provided to the Magdalen Women. A specific medical card has been issued to these women so they can access the enhanced health services they require without charge. The number of women who have access to this Scheme in Ireland is 613. There are a further 118 eligible women living overseas and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (17 Nov 2016)
Simon Harris: As part of a support package, including a range of financial payments, that was approved by Government for former residents of Magdalen Laundries, eligibility for health services for the Magdalen women is provided by the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015. The Act sets out the primary and community health services made available, free of charge, to qualifying women....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As part of a support package, including a range of financial payments, that was approved by Government for former residents of Magdalen Laundries, eligibility for health services for the Magdalen women is provided by the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015. The Act sets out the primary and community health services made available, free of charge, to qualifying women....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (12 Jul 2016)
Simon Harris: As part of a support package, including a range of financial payments, that was approved by Government for former residents of Magdalen Laundries, eligibility for health services for the Magdalen women is provided by the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015. The Act sets out the primary and community health services made available, free of charge, to qualifying women....