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Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

...;il Éireann: notes that this motion has been drawn up with a survivor centred ethos; agrees with the State’s position, as articulated in Dáil Éireann in February 2002, that abuse occurred in the Magdalene Laundries, that the abuse was an appalling breach of trust and that the victims of that abuse suffered and continue to suffer greatly; acknowledges the hurt and...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Mick Wallace: ...is not in full agreement on the motion. I have no doubt that everyone in the House must find it difficult to read the stories of the people concerned, the survivors. The stark submission from the Magdalene group indicates that the State was involved in sending women and girls to the Magdalene laundries and ensuring that they remained there, in most cases without any statutory basis for...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...that the matter before us is addressed. We are simply seeking to have an acknowledgement from all Members of the House that supports must be put in place urgently for the aging survivors of the Magdalene laundries. Thereafter, we must have an open and meaningful debate on the issues of an apology, redress and restorative justice. We will never know the full story of the injustices,...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: ...is often quoted as stating that the measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable. By that measure, Irish society has failed shockingly in respect of those who were resident in the Magdalene laundries and the Bethany Home. There is little need for me to detail the abuse, neglect, incarceration, systemic oppression, institutionalisation, deprivation in the context of education...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Seán Kyne: The Magdalene laundries are perhaps the most powerful symbol of the inhumanity and brutality which formed a part of Irish society in the 20th century. It is almost incomprehensible to my generation and to younger generations that such institutions were allowed to exist. Moreover, the laundry system was supported by the State through commercial contracts and, outrageously, through society's...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Séamus Healy: ...should divide. Even at this late stage, I appeal to the Minister to withdraw the amendment and to allow this motion to be passed unanimously by the House. We must acknowledge that abuse occurred in Magdalene laundries. The abuse was an appalling breach of trust and the victims of that abuse suffered, and continue to suffer, greatly. We must acknowledge the hurt and the hardship caused...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Seán Kenny: ...the records of all Departments would be made available for the committee's work. I also welcomed the assurance of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, to the Justice for Magdalenes' campaign that the development of a narrative of State interaction with the Magdalene laundries would consider acts of omission on the part of the State, in particular the State's failure...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Michael Colreavy: Is Ireland's legal and political system incompatible with justice? We are still discussing the Magdalene laundries and we are not even considering the Bethany Home. I am obliged to wonder about how we, as a society, have let these people down. The Magdalene laundries are a great stain on the history of Ireland in the 20th century. By voting in favour of the motion, Members have the...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...and imprisonment. Thankfully, though deeply saddening, the treatment of those families is by now well documented. The harsh reality for them has been articulated by many, including Justice for Magdalenes, and has been accepted by the Irish Human Rights Commission, the United Nations Committee against Torture, and Dr. Geoffrey Shannon that the State's failure to monitor conditions in...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Martin Ferris: One of the key issues to be addressed in regard to the Magdalene laundries is the role of the State, which encompasses not only its abdication of responsibility but also its role in covering up the mistreatment and injustice meted out to victims. All aspects of the State's role are set out in a comprehensive report prepared for the interdepartmental Oireachtas committee established to...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: ...informing myself to the best of my ability and forming a judgment, yet there are some topics, regardless of how much I read or how much research I do, that I feel I can never fully understand. The Magdalene issue is one such topic. Some facts are known and they are almost incomprehensible. More than 30,000 women and girls were incarcerated in those institutions, enduring forced labour,...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Brian Stanley: I wish to extend my sympathy and support to the women who suffered abuse in the Magdalene laundries. I applaud them for maintaining their dignity and I compliment them on the way they managed their campaign to seek justice. They have been an inspiration to people throughout Ireland in the context of how they have conducted themselves. The abuse that took place in the residential...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: ...one do. These people need justice and they need it before it is too late. The longer we wait, the less likely it is that they will get justice. I started reading the report produced by Justice for Magdalenes and I must say it is very hard work to read it. If it is hard work to read the report, it must have been absolute hell to exist as those people were forced to exist. I consider...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Regina Doherty: ...of State involvement in the laundries. We certainly do not call for it to stop. We want its work speeded up. However, it is clear to me there is enough evidence of State involvement in the Magdalene laundries for the Government to issue an apology. A piece in The Irish Times today really struck me:No apology, no pension, no lost wages, no redress and no acknowledgment that what had...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The history of the Magdalene laundries and the tens of thousands of women who were incarcerated, abused, exploited and enslaved in those institutions is a black stain on the history of this State and is part of a landscape of shame that includes the industrial schools, the Bethany Home and widespread abuse of children by the church. The State is ultimately responsible for this. The role of...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I can only imagine the fear, the isolation, the helplessness and, perhaps for many, the final submission felt by those women and girls incarcerated in the Magdalene laundries. While I can only imagine the nightmare, I know there are many who live with the reality. I am also conscious as we debate this motion that there are women and their families watching this debate for whom the Magdalene...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Paul Connaughton: ...in terms of assessing how the country's most vulnerable people were treated in past decades and an important part of that has been assessment of the circumstances of women and girls who resided in Magdalene laundries across the country. Initially those institutions were designed as places of asylum for women and were found throughout Europe as well as in Canada and the United States....

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Dessie Ellis: ...important issue and to speak on behalf of a group of very brave and strong people, those who survived what I have little doubt is the worst injustice ever visited on Irish people by other Irish people. The story of the Magdalene laundries is a kind of horrific catalogue of grinding injustice and every new piece of information still shocks us, despite all that has been uncovered to date....

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...of bleach and words such as cruelty, sadness, terror, poverty, unhappiness, regret, hunger, brutality, abuse, despair, beatings, imprisonment and silence. It is now three years since Justice for Magdalenes circulated an apology and redress scheme for survivors. It is 22 months since the Irish Human Rights Commission stated that a statutory inquiry into alleged abuses and provision of...