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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Mar 2022)

Lisa Chambers: ...which was also announced yesterday. Senator Warfield welcomed the new centre for research and remembrance that will be located at Seán McDermott Street in Dublin city at the former site of one of the Magdalen laundries. I concur with the his remarks. It is a really welcome use of that building and is a fitting tribute to the survivors of that awful institution. Senator Moynihan...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Lisa Chambers: ...that women in this country have made in that period, the debate on abortion has forced us to look back over a long and dark history when women suffered terribly. If we look at the atrocities of the Magdalene laundries, the Tuam mother and baby home and other homes, we realise that it was not so long ago. That was the very recent past. I think that we have actually reached a critical...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Lisa Chambers: ...we revisit a previous scandal or an atrocity that took place not very long ago. We have had discussions recently about the Tuam mother and baby home and mother and baby homes more generally, the Magdalene laundries, the Kerry babies tragedy and the treatment of Joanne Hayes. These black marks on our society are from the very recent past. Although we have come a long way from those times...