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Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...a tax haven for the multinational companies that are avoiding paying their just taxes in other countries and that we will commit to stopping capital flight and country by country accounting. I was glad to see that the lump sum payable to the ladies of the Magdalen laundries would be tax exempt. I would have assumed that would be the case. There is a 3% cut in overseas development aid....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 430. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Magdalene women will receive funding in relation to the documentation each of them has provided and his Department has received since June; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of the women who are elderly are seeing their health decline in the meantime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39431/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...taken to address the requests made by the Rapporteur for Follow-up on Concluding Observations, Committee Against Torture, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights details supplied) on the Magdalene Laundries paragraph 21; the way he will respond to the statement that the inquiry into the Magdalene Laundry institutions lacked many elements of prompt, independent and thorough...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to Magdalen Laundry survivors, if he will publicise at home and abroad to diaspora communities of survivors' entitlements to register with the Magdalen Fund/Commission in order to maximise the number of potential applicants' awareness of the scheme; the consequences there are for a survivor who does not register with the Magdalen...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will make available to survivors and their families free independent advice and advocacy assistance in relation to the Magdalen Fund/Commission scheme; if Mr. Justice Quirke will be commissioned to implement the process that he recommends after the three month review period; and if he will establish a dedicated helpline for Magdalen...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being taken to ensure the Magdalen Fund/Commission is a transparent process; if it will have an appeals process with independent monitoring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16631/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Justice Quirke will be commissioned to implement the process that he recommends after the three month review work of the Magdalen Fund/Commission. [16632/13]

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...happened to the ladies. Article 40.1 of Bunreacht na hÉireann states that "All citizens shall, as human persons, be held equal before the law." There was no equality, however, for the ladies of the Magdalen laundries, the children of the industrial schools, the ladies who suffered symphysiotomy procedures, thalidomide survivors and the post-polio group. Despite this, Article 40.1...

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...have been kept in the stable in the first place. By this I mean the debt, amounting to billions of euro that was put into Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, should never have been incurred. During the debate on the Magdalen laundries last week I said the episode was a shameful event in our history. The signing of the deal in 2008 was also a shameful event,...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: This motion deals with the ladies of the Magdalen laundries and our priority should be to address their issues rather than allow them to become a political football. I acknowledge Deputy Calleary for tabling the motion but we did not need another Private Members' debate on the matter given that we debated it some time ago. The time for talk is over and action is now needed for the ladies...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Magdalen Laundries (6 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in progressing the issues relating to the Magdalen laundries, he is considering an apology and a redress and restorative justice scheme and if he will establish a dedicated helpline and outreach service to provide much needed assistance for the ladies of the laundries. [6093/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Magdalen Laundries (6 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: It is interesting to note the first parliamentary question about the Magdalen laundries was asked in 1938. It has taken quite a while to get from 1938 to 2013, when we now know the facts and everything that has been established. The committee hopes the report "will be a real step in bringing healing and peace of mind to all concerned, most especially the women whose lived experience of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (6 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he envisages acting on the report of the Committee, chaired by Senator McAleese, into the Magdalen laundries [6094/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalene Laundries (21 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on State involvement in Magdalene Laundries will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51798/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason only ten Magdalene Laundries will be included in the final report of inter-departmental committee and will not include the Magdalene Laundry (details supplied); the reasons for some Magdalene Laundries and or religious institutions designed for the same purposes as those listed will not be investigated; and if he will make a statement on...

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)

Maureen O'Sullivan: .... We are now actively promoting children's rights and seeking to include them in the Constitution but only five or six minutes ago I was speaking on the tragedy and horrors of what went on the Magdalene laundries, when children and young girls were confined, deprived of their rights, stripped of their identity and dignity and subject to humiliating and degrading treatment at the hands of...

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...more disappointing is the fact the report will not make any recommendations, which could result in further delays. That is no longer acceptable. Above all, I wish to acknowledge the work of the Justice for Magdalenes group. Without them this is an episode in our history that people would have been delighted just to forget about and brush under the carpet. Were it not for their work,...

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...in past years. While it is too late for some of the swimmers concerned, who are now adults, the pain continues for those who were badly affected. The other group to which I wish to refer is the Magdalene survivors. Members are aware of the abuse that went on and of the lack of care, consideration and everything in their lives. It is very disappointing to learn that the report, which...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons for the delay in the publication of the final report of the Inter-Departmental Committee investigating State involvement in the Magdalene Laundries; the reason he will not proceed with urgency to establish restorative justice to those who suffered in Magdalene Laundries and other institutions after 22 months of the IHRC recommendation...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...voices have to be heard. The apology and the memorial must be handled in a dignified and careful manner and the voices of the survivors must be heard in that regard. With regard to the Justice for Magdalenes group, I wish to acknowledge their work and the way they went about it. I am aware that their work and that of Professor Smith, Claire McGettrick and Maeve O'Rourke showed a respect...