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Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Averil Power: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. On 27 February 2013 I stood up in this House and warmly welcomed the Taoiseach's apology the previous week to the Magdalen survivors. I also said that I was proud of him for the genuine, warm and sincere manner in which he had delivered that apology. Unfortunately, as Maeve O'Rourke of the Justice for Magdalenes group has pointed out, while the...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Averil Power: ...children.’, ‘Any former resident of any County Home will be entitled to be heard by the Commission of Investigation.’; - calls for the Commission of Investigation, in its examination of ‘exit pathways’, to pay particular regard to the role of the Magdalene Laundries; - notes with concern that the experiences of between 60% to 70% of all unmarried girls...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Averil Power: ...the terms of reference. We have listened to the reservations expressed about them by groups, including the Adoption Rights Alliance, Adoption Rights Now, CMABS, Adopted Illegally Ireland, Justice for Magdalenes and others, including individual survivors who have written to me, as well as other Members, in recent weeks outlining their concerns. We support their call to amend the terms of...

Seanad: Direct Provision System: Motion (17 Sep 2014)

Averil Power: ...the conditions for children in those centres in the same way as the current Government and its predecessors have apologised for torture that was visited upon people in residential institutions and Magdalen laundries in the past. This is an area in which we need to see much greater urgency and commitment. Like many other Members, I visited the exhibition across the street curated by the...

Seanad: Asylum Support Services: Motion (23 Oct 2013)

Averil Power: ...McGuinness wrote a very moving article about how a future Government will have to apologise for what is going on because, as has been said today and previously in the House in the debate on the Magdalen laundries and other such issues in the past two years, child protection risks increase in such a system. The institutionalisation in many respects has parallels with what happened in the...

Seanad: Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (27 Feb 2013)

Averil Power: ...is the right person, given that commitment, to discuss this issue with us in the House. The Taoiseach spoke for all of us last week when he apologised unreservedly to the women incarcerated in the Magdalen laundries for the hurt done to them and the stigma they suffered. I was very proud of the Taoiseach last Wednesday not only in terms of his words but the genuine, warm and sincere...

Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Jul 2012)

Averil Power: ...Stage. It is unfair and unnecessary in the greater scheme of things to exclude those who have suffered most. One of the other gaping gaps in the Bill is to provide for the former residents of the Magdalene laundries and Bethany Home. I appreciate that work is ongoing on that issue and that Senator Martin McAleese is chairing the interdepartmental committee. As we all know from our time...