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

Sean Barrett: ...taking it over was to prevent the children from becoming Roman Catholics. There are very grim statements about what went on there and the Bethany Home, Westbank institution, Church of Ireland Magdalen Home, Nursery Rescue Society and Braemor House are also mentioned. The Minister has got a very good team together and has given them a budget of €6 million. Let us ensure it is...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: ...out of a very dark age in terms of the treatment of women in this country. We had, in effect, an incarceration society, with 20,000 people installed in various mental hospitals, reformatories and Magdalen laundries, some with no prospect of release. There was also widespread physical brutality in schools and abuse of children and women on a broad scale. It is a pity that section 7...

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

Sean Barrett: ...of their book, members of the religious congregations were not recruiting people for their institutions, families were leaving people they did not want. As the Taoiseach so graphically stated, the Magdalen laundries illustrates the level of hypocrisy in this country. While we were inventing an image of ourselves as an island of saints and scholars, appalling things were taking place. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Sean Barrett: ...with regard to what they tell employers. There are many case studies on the rights of part-time workers. I very much welcome the Deputy Leader's decision and I thank her. With regard to the Magdalen laundries, a most interesting work by Eoin O'Sullivan and Ian O Donnell, Coercive Confinement in Ireland, records that at any one stage between the 1920s and the 1950s 30,000 people were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Sean Barrett: ...? We can help with information in cases where it is thought people died and it was not recorded, or where the group wants to know what a person died from. This has come up in the case of the Magdalen laundries, as Deputy McDonald pointed out. The State cannot lose people. People are entitled to know where their friends have gone, why they died and the causes of death.