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International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...conscience, how we will work with the National Museum of Ireland on the record-keeping element and how it will provide an historical explanation of what happened in mother and baby homes, county homes, Magdalen laundries and industrial schools. Work is also ongoing on how the site can bring a benefit to the north inner city in the form of social housing, childcare and education. That key...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...for being themselves. In that context, I raised an issue this morning with the Taoiseach about the urgent need to preserve all private and public records and information relating to residents of Magdalen laundries. These records are the life story of these women - women who were silenced, women who were incarcerated and women whose labour profited others. The last piece of...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...oppression of Irish women goes back to the pervasive role of the Catholic Church in this country in collusion with the State, and the cruel enslavement of women in the mother and baby homes and the Magdalen laundries are testament to that. We still have hospitals where religion still pulls the strings, including the new national maternity hospital, and 90% of our Catholic schools still...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...O'Farrell was put back into that picture. She was painted out of that image in the past. So many women were painted out of history and, indeed, society for so long. We think of the women in the Magdalen laundries. We think of the terrible scar that has been on Irish society for so long by how badly we treated women in our society and how much reparation we have to make in order to...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...xed; last year for breaches of protection orders and safety orders. We still lack the necessary refuge spaces for women. Women have been discriminated against in Irish society for far too long, including by means of incarceration in Magdalen institutions and mother and baby homes. Importantly, other speakers indicated that this is an international struggle. Women’s rights...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...much hurt and harm to them and to generations of women. I think today of Vicky Phelan, but also of all the women and families caught up in the CervicalCheck scandal. I think of those who were in Magdalen laundries and in mother and baby homes. I think of the women who suffered the barbarity and butchery of symphysiotomy. I think of the hepatitis C scandal. I could list more. Women...