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Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...Group, where the first line of the constitution literally is about the mission of Mary Aikenhead, who was the founder of the Sisters of Charity, which was responsible for the running of the Magdalen laundries, thereby completely contradicting that idea. The Taoiseach was very coy earlier in response to Deputy McDonald about how he will vote tonight on a motion that goes exactly against...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...Services) Act 1948 can be used to licence exhumation for the purpose of coroner’s inquests, bearing in mind this power was used to sanction the exhumation and cremation of all but one of 155 Magdalene women’s bodies in 1993 in circumstances in which many were not even identified with death certificates. [58369/21]

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...State might be forced to apologise but they still do not want to pay. We must ensure that this time, they do not get away with it. As Claire McGettrick of the Clann Project has said: In 2013, once the Magdalene apology came, nobody (apart from ... [a few]) was interested in what an insult the McAleese Report was to the women's lived experiences. This time feels different - this time...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: I was born in 1983 in the country of the Magdalen laundries, the Kerry Babies case, the case of Ann Lovett and many other horrors. It has been said in the debate that the past is another country, and this is true in some very important respects, most importantly in respect of people's attitudes to these issues. However, in legal terms, that country continues today with the eighth amendment,...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...in the world with a ban on abortion is the constitution of Chile, which was introduced by Pinochet with the co-operation of a big part of the clergy during his dictatorship. The Catholic Church is the church of symphysiotomy, the Magdalen laundries and the so-called mother and baby home in Tuam. It attempts to lecture women about morality. The church and the rest of the conservative...

Convention on the Constitution Final Reports: Statements (14 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...to the church to get away from its responsibilities and as an instrument of social control. That close connection between the church and the State was the context in which scandals such as the Magdalen laundries could take place. It is also the context in which people do not have the basic right to abortion, for example. We still have blasphemy in the Constitution. Despite the fine...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...welfare needs.Mr. Justice Quirke then reported in quite a simple and straightforward fashion, one that was minimal from the point of the women. However, the first recommendation was very clear: "Magdalen women should have access to the full range of services currently enjoyed by holders of the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 Card (“the HAA card”)." There was a very good reason...