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Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...happening to women, to assess how far we have come or not come in some areas. Last month, it was exactly five years since the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, apologised to the women from the Magdalen laundries on behalf of the State. He made a very sincere apology. He said that Mr. Justice John Quirke’s review with the recommendations of the provision of payments and support...

Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Victor Boyhan: ...excelled. They got that opportunity and were there to do the work. That is an important point.. However, there were many women who never got that opportunity. I do not want to let this opportunity pass without mentioning the Magdalen women, to whom Senator Conway-Walsh referred. It is important we remember them. Among that group there were many bright, able ambitious women. There...

Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in the future the numbers will go up. Today, it is not right that any speaker should sit down without recognising the dark sphere of our relationships in the past. That is the mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries. They represent a dark chapter that cannot be avoided in our discourse. In any kind of a redemptive or restorative process we can not ignore them. The way to salute...

Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ...We cannot uphold any level of leadership without getting our own house in order first. Previous generations of politicians upheld the subjugation of women, be it through the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries or mental institutions. We criminalised women through marginalisation, the denial of basic rights to contraception and so on. We had a rape culture that censored women...