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Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (28 Mar 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...and Youth to make a statement on the process of selection of recipients for funding for projects from unspent moneys from schemes for the Traveller and Roma communities, migrant integration and Magdalen laundries redress fund. Senator Timmy Dooley - The need for the Minister for Transport to ensure adequate funding is provided to local authorities for the reinstatement and improvement of...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (23 Mar 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...and Youth to make a statement on the process of selection of recipients for funding for projects from unspent moneys from schemes for the Traveller and Roma communities, migrant integration and Magdalen laundry redress fund. Senator Róisín Garvey - The need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make a statement on the development of new water treatment...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (22 Mar 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...and Youth to make a statement on the process for the selection of recipients for funding for projects from unspent moneys from schemes for the Traveller and Roma communities, migrant integration and the Magdalen laundry redress fund. Of the matters raised by the Senators suitable for discussion, I have selected Senators Currie, Boyhan, Cummins, Dooley, Kyne and Gavan, and they will be...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (8 Mar 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...and Youth to make a statement on the process of selection of recipients of funding for projects from unspent moneys from schemes for the Traveller and Roma communities, migrant integration and Magdalen laundry redress fund. Senators Boylan and Keogan have withdrawn their Commencement matters, which I had originally selected. I regret that I had to rule out of order the matters raised by...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (25 Jun 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: .... Since the publication of the Quirke report six years ago, many of the proposals have been put in place to provide recognition, compassion and support to the women affected by our dark past. The Magdalen restorative justice ex gratiascheme for women has been expanded and today's Bill adds further to what we are doing. It is about providing a range of health services at no charge to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: ...west. It is important for the 49 children and families who have been left in a vulnerable position to get answers in respect of this matter. Senators Bacik and McFadden mentioned last week's Dublin Honours Magdalenes ceremony, which was a fitting tribute to the ladies in question. It was emotional to watch the ovation the women received outside the Mansion House. I thank everyone...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: ...their courage in telling their story. We need to have compassion in our maternity services and I hope we continue to have it. I join with Senator Devine in commending the Minister for Justice and Equality on broadening the Magdalen laundries redress scheme. The sign of a good Minister is that he listens. It is a question of including women who were doing the same work as others and...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: .... I would be happy to arrange for the Minister to come to the House to discuss this issue in due course. Senator Ardagh referred to the remarks made by the Ombudsman, Peter Tyndall, regarding the Magdalen laundries. I know he appeared before the relevant committee yesterday. There is a different viewpoint between the Department and Mr. Tyndall in this regard. The matter needs to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: ...been resolved and he is now off the hook. Luke Thomas will be heading to the Aviva stadium soon. Senator Ardagh raised the important issue of the redress scheme, specifically in respect of the Magdalen women. The views of the Department of Justice and Equality and the Ombudsman diverge on this issue. I have read the Ombudsman's report and the commentary on it. Redress is needed,...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: ...beds will be opened. I made the point yesterday and make it again today that there is a need to increase bed capacity in hospitals. I hope that will be done. Senator Máire Devine referred to the Magdalen laundry site in Donnybrook. I am not familiar with it in the context of its proposed development, but I do share the Senator's view and agree with her about having a museum or an...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: ...to account.I agree with Senator Feighan that our education system, church, gardaí and State in general hid or allowed people to be hidden and held in these homes. Senator Devine referenced the Magdalen women and the industrial schools, as did other Members. Where was the State? Where was society? Some of us in society at that time condoned this through our silence and inaction....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind people to switch off their mobile telephones or set them to aeroplane mode. I welcome members and witnesses to this meeting this afternoon. I welcome Ms Magdalen Rogers, development manager of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, Professor Orla Hardiman, professor of neurology and head of the academic unit of neurology, Trinity College, who also is a consultant neurologist at...

Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: ...been a continuing narrative describing across a generation and many decades the unfortunate treatment of those men and women on the margins of society. Industrial schools, residential institutions and Magdalen laundries are just a few of the high profile examples of neglect, mistreatment and abuse of those on the margins of this society, in many cases at the hands of people who were put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Ms Magdalen Rogers from Neurological Alliance of Ireland.

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

Jerry Buttimer: ...in the past has thankfully been laid bare, not just before this House but also before the nation. An entire generation can now witness what the threat of being sent to institutions such as the Magdalen laundries meant to their forebears. The information that has emerged shows what society used to be like, what we were prepared to put up with and what we allowed to take place. This...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: ...do things differently. The House will debate the report in a few weeks. It is important that it does. I received an email from a friend living in the United States of America who read in Time magazine "The Magdalen Laundries: Irish Report Exposes a National Shame". He asked me if we Irish were ever going to stop. I hope the report represents a watershed moment and that we will learn...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: .... We are saying to families, children and the people that we value each other and that we want to live in a society that cherishes children. On an evening when we have debated the issue of the Magdalene laundries we are saying we have learned from the past and that we want to embrace the future through the medium of this constitutional amendment. I had the pleasure and the privilege...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: ...were shunned and separated from society. It is horrifying to contemplate the brutality that existed in these places, which lasted for the first 84 years of our State. Given that the last of the Magdalene laundries closed in 1996, we should realise that we are not just talking about a historic legacy. We are dealing with something that is a recent memory and a recent scar, unfortunately,...