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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...

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: 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 (21 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...festival, and those of us privileged to live in Dublin or near the parade will be encouraging friends and relatives to join us, visit the parade and celebrate the day. I know we will debate the Magdalen report next week and there are some reports today about possible preclusions or restrictions on applications from survivors who went through the redress board. I have every confidence that...

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 (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 (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 (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 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 (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 (21 Jul 2011)

Ivana Bacik: ...this has been the case. As the Taoiseach stated, we are awaiting the considered response of the Vatican to the Cloyne report. However, he also stated that this is no longer "industrial school or Magdalene Ireland, where the swish of a soutane, smothered conscience and humanity and the swing of a thurible ruled the Irish Catholic world". He further pointed out that in this Republic of...

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 (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 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 (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 (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 (10 Nov 2010)

Ivana Bacik: .... Those of us in this House who have supported Seanad reform are anxious to see real action being taken by the Government on the matter. I join others who called for a debate yesterday on the Magdalen laundries, survivors of those laundries and the need for redress. In the wake of yesterday's Irish Human Rights Commission report, there is a real imperative that we would debate the issue...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010: Second Stage (17 Feb 2010)

Ivana Bacik: ...in all cases where it has intervened in respect of persons with mental illness. We have a very shameful history of incarcerating large numbers of the population in industrial schools for children, Magdalen institutions for women and indeed in psychiatric institutions for persons deemed to have been mentally unwell. It is very much a positive development that we no longer adhere to that...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: Anyone who has any regard for the history of censorship in Ireland will recognise a long history of repression in the name of religion. For a long time institutions such as the Magdalene laundries symbolised the sexual repression of women in particular in the name of religion and in the name of the domination in this society by the Catholic Church in particular. Anyone with regard for that...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Ivana Bacik: ...Michael Woods in conducting it. Serious questions must be asked about that. There are other questions. There was a great deal of abuse in institutions not covered by the agreement, such as the Magdalene institutions mentioned by others and national schools where children were not resident but where we know abuse was carried out. We must look at the extension of the redress scheme to...