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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I will begin and end with a quote given to me many years ago by survivors of Magdalen laundries who formed the basis of the work I was asked me to undertake during my time as a Dublin City councillor, namely that the antithesis of restorative justice is the retraumatisation of victims. We should keep that quote close to us as we endeavour on the road before us in honouring and providing...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...health, education and welfare to the church. They were not consulted. More than that, society was never consulted and was not an architect in the system of containment that resulted in mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries, asylums and institutions. People certainly may have been scared of ending up in one but they were not complicit in that. At its very basis, that is what these ex...

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: .... I am not anti-Catholic; I am against a system of control and systematic abuse. I am against a system that abused people in this country for decades and that led to the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries, and a scenario in which people were told contraception, divorce and IVF were wrong and that loving a person of the same sex as oneself was wrong. That is what I am opposed...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...the shoulders of people who came before us and suffered a substantial oppression and showed courage beyond what they should have to, in terms of contraceptive trains and those who were incarcerated in Magdalen laundries, suffered the horrors of the asylums and were kept in mother and baby homes. Those legacies are still there. That pain is still there and we will not concede. Do we...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (22 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make funds available to ensure the preservation of Ireland’s last Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in order that it may be a site of conscience and truth-telling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33556/21]

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...person on the street? As we engage in that question, it will incorporate conversations about how we handed control over to the church and all of the hideous things that came from that, including the Magdalen laundries, institutions and asylums. All of those things must be included when we have a true narrative of our history. I want to talk about what Moore Street and the market...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...not arbitrarily detained. The fact that a commission was able to make such a finding is wrong and I cannot stand over that. On forced labour, Dr. O'Rourke has stated "The Commission recommends that Magdalene Laundry-like redress should only be available for women in county homes,... women in Tuam,... women who worked outside the institutions without pay" and for nobody else. On unlawful...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (28 Jan 2021)

Gary Gannon: 184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applicants per year under the Magdalen restorative redress scheme since 2015; the number of survivors who have successfully obtained the 2015A medical card; the effectiveness of the redress scheme as it pertains to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4972/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (27 Jan 2021)

Gary Gannon: 542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide victims and survivors of the Magdalene Laundries a full HAA card for public and private services as was one of the recommendations within the Magdalen Commission Report in 2013. [3202/21]

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...of medical card that will be made available to survivors of mother and baby homes. In that context, we already have a gold standard as recommended on foot of a previous apology to the survivors of Magdalen laundries. The first recommendation of Mr. Justice John Quirke was that survivors of Magdalen laundries would receive the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 card, known as the HAA card. This...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...took place in the Chamber yesterday, today might be a good day to highlight promises in previous State apologies that are as yet unfulfilled. I refer in particular to the apology to survivors of Magdalen laundries in 2013 and the recommendations from Mr. Justice Quirke's commission that have yet to be implemented. Previously, I raised recommendation 6 relating to memorialisation, but...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...misunderstanding of how pervasive the legacy of institutional abuse and incarceration has been in this country. I promise the Minister that the Ireland of 1920 continued until 1996 when the last Magdalen laundry on Sean MacDermott Street closed. There are people today, young and old, who are still being impacted by discussions we have. The Ireland of 1920 continued long after. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Magdalen Laundries (20 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he still accepts the sixth recommendation of a person (details supplied) to provide a suitable memorial to the victims and survivors of Magdalen laundries following the State apology made in 2013. [30368/20]

Child Poverty: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...what we are doing here. I am conscious that when one talks about poverty and who is impacted by it, one starts to see history replicating itself. People who were locked away in mother and baby homes or Magdalen laundries, now that those institutions are gone, are simply being ignored by the State. Having been forced into Magdalen laundries or mother and baby homes, those people are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (28 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 769. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a clear timeline for the memorialisation and education process to ensure the atrocities of the Magdalen laundries are remembered; if a timeline has not been put in place, the steps she is taking to develop same; if the Justice for Magdalenes research 2020 report at the Dublin Honours Magdalenes event will be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (28 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 770. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will be working with Dublin City Council to ensure the former Magdalen laundry on the Sean McDermott Street site will remain in ownership of the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18292/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (28 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 771. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the former Magdalen laundry site located on Sean McDermott Street will be developed as a memorialisation site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18293/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...world before Covid-19. In February 2013, the Tánaiste's predecessor as leader of Fine Gael and former Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny, made a heartfelt and profound apology to victims and survivors of the Magdalen laundries. In May 2013 that apology came with a suite of recommendations from Mr. Justice John Quirke on how we could memorialise and give basic provisions to those survivors....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Advocacy Service (16 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 389. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will act urgently regarding Magdalen survivors who are still institutionalised particularly those in a nursing home (details supplied) which is due to close; if survivors in the care of religious congregations will be referred to the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities as requested by a group; and if...