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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme or to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries are also disregarded. These compensation awards and payments were disregarded over the years as a result of Government decisions and the enactment of corresponding legislation....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme or to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries are also disregarded in social welfare means assessments. All other compensation or court awards which are not provided for in social welfare legislation are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (28 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Magdalen Commission Scheme is administered by my Department on behalf of the Department of Justice and Equality. The scheme enables the women over the age of 66 who qualify to receive the equivalent of the maximum rate of State pension contributory for the remainder of their lives. The current maximum rate of State pension contributory is €233.30 per week. If a person is already...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (19 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...Thalidomide. Any payment made by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board is similarly disregarded. In addition, ex gratia payments made to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries or through the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme are also not taken into account in social welfare means assessments. All other compensation or court awards which are not provided...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015,inter alia, provided for a range of primary and community health services to be made available to Magdalen women by the HSE without charge in Ireland. In connection with Magdalen woman living abroad, the Minister for Primary Care, Social Care (Disabilities & Older People) and Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch, in December...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...into the dark recesses of our recent past and further back and this Government has donated much energy to enabling people to have their voices heard and redress provided, whether in the case of child sex abuse, the Magdalen women, the women who underwent symphysiotomy or patients and their families who were not listened to in Portlaoise hospital. We need to ensure that, as we recover from...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (9 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Department of Health and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs were represented on the Magdalen Laundries Interdepartmental Committee chaired by Dr. Martin McAleese. I am aware that the Health Service Executive provided a draft report on the Bessboro Mother and Baby Home to the secretariat of the Committee. The representatives of the two Departments received a copy of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (19 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...for a broad range of health services and benefits for women who qualify under the Department of Justice and Equality Restorative Justice Scheme for women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries and similar institutions. The HSE is finalising the arrangements for access to the health services provided for under the Act and will contact the women who qualify when these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions Data (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 128 and 129 together. I am advised by the Minister for Justice and Equality that the scheme of ex gratia payments to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen laundries and two similar institutions is still open and will be for the foreseeable future. In view of this, it is difficult to estimate the final number of participants in the redress...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (10 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...product or blood transfusion. In his report, Mr Justice Quirke recommended, inter alia, that legislation be introduced to give effect to his recommendation on the provision of health services to Magdalen women. To this end, the Minister for Justice has published the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014. This Bill is to make provision for the making available...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (17 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: ...references have been indexed onto a specialised ‘names index’ along with other relevant information. The Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State Involvement with the Magdalen Laundries considered the routes of entry to the Magdalen Laundries, including from Mother and Baby Homes, and my Department and the HSE conducted searches of retained records for...