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Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014): Brian Walsh: ...our nation's past when networks of immoral and dehumanising institutions were allowed to prevail against a background of indifference on the part of the State. The shameful details that emerged on Magdalen laundries and, more recently, mother and baby homes have shocked the nation and ought to weigh heavily on our collective conscience as we deal with asylum seekers. That those dark...
Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013): Brian Walsh: ...that informed the McAleese report has, as the Taoiseach said, held up a torch to our past and illuminated some of the darkest recesses of our nation's recent history. Women were incarcerated in the Magdalen laundries for a variety of reasons or, in some cases, for no reason at all. Many were admitted for what has been described as the crime of being an unmarried mother. Others were...

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