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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Department of Children and Youth Affairs (8 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...processes there will be, and how many records have been handed over so far. Do we know how many records have been handed over? When former Senator Martin McAleese was writing the report on the Magdalen laundries, the different charities gave him records, but he handed them back. How is the State collecting those records, especially records from outside the State? Many children went to...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...these will be rolled out. This is what people are looking for. We can get caught up in legislation and we move on. I appreciate the Minister of State took issue at a press release by Justice for Magdalenes. Many of us have seen the outstanding work that Justice for Magdalenes has done with the women long before any of us realised this was an issue. I would want that the record of this...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State's commitment in respect of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill. However, the cases I cited previously in the context of Magdalen women seeking to access disability and social services illustrate that they cannot access them. It is obvious, therefore, that they require the assistance of personal advocates. I am of the view that this section of the...

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

Jillian van Turnhout: ...her views on this matter. This is an issue about which I feel strongly and become quite emotional. Of course, it is an emotional subject and during the years I have met so many survivors of the Magdalen laundries who have shown such courage and dignity. The time has come for us to display similar courage and dignity. When the Taoiseach made his formal apology in February 2013, there...

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

Jillian van Turnhout: ...and adoption, Dr. William Duncan; and the historian, Professor Mary Daly. I am torn here because I have had different experiences of inquiries. I have had the experience of the reports on the Magdalen laundries and on symphysiotomy. However, I have had an equally powerful experience of the Ryan report and what followed with the implementation plan. The Ryan report came from a...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...- into the systematic abuse and exploitation of vulnerable children in State and church institutions in Ireland. It is the same shame I felt reading the harrowing testimony from survivors of the Magdalen laundries and symphysiotomy procedures performed by medical professionals in Irish hospitals. I share the overwhelming sense of shame and compunction over the unthinkable fate suffered by...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I will start where Senator Bacik finished with regard to the Magdalen laundries. We had a debate in the House earlier this year which was adjourned and not resumed. I ask for the resumption of that debate. I am incredulous that the four religious congregations have said they will not be contributing to any financial redress scheme. I do not accept that statement. We know that property...

Seanad: Courts Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...of secrecy, to the extreme, has had disastrous consequences for Irish society in the past. A clear example of this can be seen with the injustices perpetrated against the women detained in the Magdalen laundries. That issue remained completely out of the public realm while the injustices were occurring. It is important that the public interest and the need to foster and encourage a...

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

Jillian van Turnhout: ...issues. This report established, categorically, what survivors and their advocacy groups have told us for years, namely, that the State was directly involved and consequently, complicit, in the Magdalen laundry system. I very much welcome the State's inclusion of all surviving women in the apology, thereby avoiding any distinction being made between survivors who were sent into the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank everyone who attended a joint briefing I organised on the Magdalen report with Amnesty International, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Justice for Magdalenes. I hope we will debate the issue at the earliest opportunity, and I hope that today is day one of justice. When we have the debate I ask for appropriate time to scrutinise any proposed redress scheme; there should not...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...success with his future endeavours. I also thank his assistant, Ms Catherine Butler. We all await the interdepartmental committee report on the investigation into the State's involvement in the Magdalen laundries, on which Mr. McAleese worked. Everyone is thinking of the women today. It is part of our shameful past. Some of the survivors had, and have, intellectual disabilities and...

Seanad: National Cultural Institutions: Motion (27 Jun 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...in the interests of democracy, transparency, truth and justice cannot be overstated. We know how essential court and other archival records are to clarifying the State interaction with the Magdalene laundries and to other bodies of inquiry and redress. As we enter a decade of sensitive commemorations, how we understand our history is critical, and I am well aware that the absence of...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...Marie-Louise O'Donnell, Mary Ann O'Brien and Dr. Katherine Zappone. I echo Senator Bacik's call in respect of the recommendations of the United Nations committee against torture with regard to the Magdalene laundries. The Minister for Justice and Equality will shortly bring proposals to Cabinet. I ask that the Seanad be given an opportunity, following discussions at Cabinet level, to...