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- Order of Business (15 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: This matter is being treated very seriously by the Government. It is difficult to put in words the scale of the emotional impact for many of those women who worked in the Magdalene laundries. However, we need to find out the facts here, what happened, how many were involved, and what was the State's involvement. That is the reason the Government has decided to have an interdepartmental...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: I am sure the Deputy empathises, as I do, in respect of the difficulties, the emotional trauma and the personal difficulties of many of the people involved in the Magdalene laundries and what they went through. The Deputy is also aware that this goes back to before the turn of the last century. The United Nations Committee Against Torture, UNCAT, issued its concluding observations...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: ...consider the detail of the UNCAT report and to continue the work he is already doing in conjunction with the Office of the Attorney General on this matter. It is clear that some of the women in the Magdalene laundries were sent there on remand arising from court decisions. Some were sent there for other reasons and some who left the laundries returned voluntarily. It is not true to say...
- Church-State Dialogue (11 May 2011)
Enda Kenny: As the Deputy is aware, the Magdalene laundries were not State institutions. One of the ten Magdalene laundries was used by the Department of Justice for a period from 1960 onwards for the remand of 16 to 21 year old women for short periods pending trial. Since the foundation of the State, a condition of probation sometimes imposed by a court on women found to have committed criminal...
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (13 May 2010)
Enda Kenny: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to provide support to the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18796/10]