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- Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Hildegarde Naughton: ...access to a range of health supports through the HSE, including GP services, home nursing and home helps, chiropody and podiatry and physiotherapy. This approach is consistent with the approach taken in respect of the Magdalen laundries and mother and baby institutions schemes. Similarly, the €3,000 health support payment for survivors who are living abroad is consistent with the...
- Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: ...highlighted to me. Are other people and applicants still in that position? That Caranua, which I will come back to later, was to me maladministered; I use that word. Prior to that, we had the Magdalen scheme, which was maladministered. Those words were used in 2017 by the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, who called his report Opportunity Lost: An Investigation by the Ombudsman into the...
- Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...survivors of residential institutions, who are at issue in the legislation before the House, but what was effectively a regime of residential institutions which were connected in lots of ways. The Magdalen laundries, residential schools, county homes and the mother and baby homes were all part of the same superstructure. There was a whole philosophy of putting people in residential...
- Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...some survivors may avail of the support, many are older and have health issues. Maybe we could now consider some kind of pension plan for them and ensure full access to the medical card system. The Magdalen laundry survivors were given a full pension that recognised the work they performed during their incarceration, as well as an enhanced medical card. They have held these for over...