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Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise a recent publication of which the Taoiseach may be aware, entitled A Dublin Magdalene Laundry - Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Irelandedited by Mark Coen, Katherine O'Donnell and Maeve O'Rourke. This new publication tells the story of Donnybrook Magdalen laundry, which was established in 1837 by the Religious Sisters of Charity. It reveals a significant amount of new...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, to the House. As everyone else has stated, I pay tribute to her for her great work in campaigning for so long on behalf of the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. Historic speeches were made in the Dáil last week, and when the Tánaiste spoke he singled her out as having played an enormous role in ensuring that at last we would see a form...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: ...a reduction in the numbers of gardaí. We must examine how best that can be achieved. I welcome the announcement today that an investigation will be held into the treatment of women and girls in Magdalene laundries. The establishment of an interdepartmental committee is an important step towards what I hope will be fuller redress and apologies for the women and girls who spent so long...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: We look forward to that debate very much. I welcome the fact that we will, in early course, have a debate on the findings of the Magdalen report from former Senator, Dr. Martin McAleese. We might have the debate next week and it is very important we have it soon, given the amount of public interest and long delay experienced by the survivors of the Magdalen laundries in seeking justice. We...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...we see an expedited criminal investigation, particularly upon listening to the tapes as they become available. I welcome the imminent announcement of the redress scheme for the survivors of the Magdalen institutions, which I understand the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, is to announce later today on foot of Mr. Justice John Quirke's report. However, there has been a...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...Council has done a great deal of work also on this matter and will be producing a report very shortly on how to generate and provide for a more women-friendly Parliament. I call for a debate on the Magdalen institutions redress scheme in light of the very disturbing news today that the four religious orders involved in running Magdalen institutions apparently will not be contributing to...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, Senator Norris raised the case of the Magdalene laundries. Perhaps we can have a debate in this House on the initial report, which is to be made to Cabinet by the interdepartmental committee announced by the Government. Senator Norris and others have raised ongoing issues that have come to light in respect of the Magdalene laundries. I refer to the article by Mary Raftery in The...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: ...is wrong of the Government to continue to accuse the Opposition of talking down the economy in some ridiculous sense. I ask for a debate early in the next term on the plight of the survivors of the Magdalene laundries. It is a month since the Irish Human Rights Commission issued its report and we have still not received a coherent Government response to the very serious call for redress...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...if people were in some way precluded from the scheme because they also spent time in an industrial scheme. The issues are considered separately and if people were subjected to forced labour in a Magdalen institution, they should be able to receive compensation for that irrespective of whether they received redress under a previous scheme in respect of industrial schools. There has been a...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...of a public representative of the other House in the context of a road traffic offence. I share the Senator's concern in that regard. The Senator also asked for a debate on the report on the Magdalen institutions by former Senator McAleese. I understand the Leader has promised such a debate. We are continuing in our efforts to secure a date for that debate. I assure colleagues that we...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...", by Professors Ian O'Donnell and Eoin O'Sullivan, which I have read. As the Senator stated, it sets out a full and appalling picture of confinement and incarceration in Ireland, not just in Magdalen institutions, but also in industrial schools, psychiatric hospitals and so on. Senator Kelly raised the issue of the ban on animal charities in Dunnes Stores, of which I was not aware. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...of the Labour group to welcome the heartfelt and unreserved apology - a fulsome apology as Senator Darragh O'Brien noted - given by the Taoiseach on behalf of the State to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries. I am really proud that this Government has at last given the long-overdue recognition and acknowledgement of the pain and suffering caused to the women who spent time in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ..., it has been a long time coming and I am glad to see it has been published. I hope we will debate it early in the autumn. I call on the Leader for a debate, as other Members have done, on the Magdalen institutions but in particular on ways in which religious orders might be compelled legally to provide contributions to the redress fund. The Taoiseach and others have said rightly that...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...carried out the investigation of 14 mother and baby homes and four county homes as a sample, given the extensive number of county homes in which women were incarcerated. According to Justice for Magdalenes, there may have been as many as 180 institutions across Ireland which had in their care women who were pregnant and their babies. We need to examine ourselves to see the attitudes that...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: ...for a debate on the recommendation of the UN committee against torture, which recommended that a statutory investigation should be held into allegations of torture and degrading treatment in the Magdalene institutions. This has been a cause for a long time and there is an excellent article by Patsy McGarry in The Irish Times today. All of us, including Senators on the Government side,...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe. When that debate resumes, it could be a good opportunity for the Senator to raise these issues. Senator Moloney referred to the need for an apology regarding Magdalen institutions. I agree with her. She also referred to the Mangan report, a matter on which we need a debate, as the Minister, Deputy Burton, promised us last year. I agree with Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I commend all those involved in the wonderful ceremony last week, Dublin Honours Magdalenes. It was uplifting to see it after such shabby treatment of so many women for so long by the State, other institutions and, in many cases, by individual families. It was good and positive to see such a great welcome for the Magdalenes by Dublin's Lord Mayor, as well as other aspects of civic and...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...could be housed all historical records, databases and findings of other commissions into institutional abuse also. Senator Sherlock has strongly advocated siting such an archive at the former Magdalen laundry in Seán McDermott Street. I am very encouraged to hear the Minister engaging with Senators Higgins and McDowell on the amendments and committing to consulting the Attorney...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2011)

Ivana Bacik: ...we should examine in the context of the wording of a children's rights referendum. I congratulate Senator Martin McAleese who has been appointed by the Government to chair the inquiry into the Magdalene laundries. That is a worthy appointment-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...to be strengthened. We should have that debate in due course but I do not think it would be appropriate to have it today. I welcome the publication yesterday of the scheme for the survivors of Magdalen laundries institutions. We might have a debate on that when we have looked in detail at the terms of that scheme. Will the Leader arrange a debate in early course on the report of the...