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- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Martin Conway: The Taoiseach's speech yesterday on the Magdalen laundries was encrypted with humanity, humility, compassion, understanding, generosity and the type of leadership that we expect from a man of his calibre. It was appropriate, long overdue but the right thing to do. This Taoiseach has proved that he does not take advice from his advisers and opinions from legal people but says and does the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Martin Conway: The Taoiseach's speech yesterday on the Magdalen laundries was encrypted with humanity, humility, compassion, understanding, generosity and the type of leadership that we expect from a man of his calibre. It was appropriate, long overdue but the right thing to do. This Taoiseach has proved that he does not take advice from his advisers and opinions from legal people but says and does the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Martin Conway: ..., captured the moment. I sincerely hope that the urgency that appropriately applied to this legislation will apply also to finding a solution for the victims of the desperate scandal that was the Magdalen laundries. In the midst of all the chaos yesterday I met two people from Mallow and a lady from Limerick. The two people from Mallow were brother and sister and the sister had donated a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)
Martin Conway: Along with others I would like to see an apology given to the women institutionalised in the Magdalen laundries, and I believe that will come in due course in an appropriate manner. I urge that that would happen, perhaps during the Oireachtas debates a few weeks from now. I would also like to see these women recompensed financially in some way. A redress scheme is appropriate when we...
- Seanad: Address by President of the Irish Human Rights Commission (28 Sep 2011)
Martin Conway: ...May it launched a report on the involvement of religion in education which stemmed from numerous complaints by non-believers who felt badly treated by the education system. Its assessment of the Magdalene laundries played an integral part in the ensuing investigations. However, while it has achieved a lot, there is much more to be done. I wholeheartedly agree with Dr. Manning that the...