{"id":516,"date":"2012-09-24T09:13:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/magdalene-laundries-to-be-raised-in-dail\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:13:10","slug":"magdalene-laundries-to-be-raised-in-dail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/magdalene-laundries-to-be-raised-in-dail\/","title":{"rendered":"Magdalene Laundries to be raised in Dail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Magdalene Laundries\u00a0to be raised in Dail<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Dublin South West\u00a0TD Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0has\u00a0said that his party Sinn Fein are to use its Private Members time in the D\u00e1il next week to move a motion on the abuses that took place in the Magdalene Laundries.<\/p>\n

The motion has been tabled by Sinn F\u00e9in with the support of 17 independent TDs and Deputy McDonald says she hopes to receive support from the government parties.<\/p>\n

Speaking\u00a0today Deputy\u00a0Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0said:<\/p>\n

\u201cSinn F\u00e9in\u00a0has put\u00a0forward this motion in recognition of the huge injustice done to the women and girls of the Magdalene Laundries and those other other groups\u00a0that the state failed to include,\u00a0and\u00a0in recognition\u00a0of the great hurt and the ongoing\u00a0hardship caused by their\u00a0exclusion from the Residential Institutional Redress Scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201dThe treatment of the 30,000 women and girls of the Magdalene Laundries goes to the very core of what was wrong historically in Irish society.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo date they have not received the recognition or redress that they deserve. The women are now predominantly aging or elderly and it is of the utmost priority and urgency that their search for justice is responded to in full by the government and the state. Their case is unanswerable and justice must be done.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a party political issue. Our motion is tabled with the support of 17 Independent TDs and I invite each and every member of the D\u00e1il to support it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI very much hope that we can get the support of the government parties when it is voted on in the D\u00e1il on Wednesday evening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Text of motion:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann:<\/p>\n

– Notes that this motion has been drawn up with a survivor centred ethos<\/p>\n

– Agrees with the State\u2019s position, as articulated in D\u00e1il Eireann in February 2002, that abuse occurred in Magdalene Laundries, that the abuse was an appalling breach of trust and that the victims of that abuse suffered and continue to suffer greatly;<\/p>\n

– Acknowledges the hurt and hardship caused by the exclusion of survivors of the Magdalene Laundries in the Residential Institutional Redress Scheme;<\/p>\n

– Acknowledges that the Magdalene survivor population is predominantly aging and elderly<\/p>\n

– Acknowledges that survivor testimony records that women were made to work without pay, were kept behind locked doors and returned by Garda\u00ed if they attempted to escape;<\/p>\n

– Welcomes the establishment of the Inter-Departmental Committee to clarify any State interaction with the Magdalene Laundries and to produce a narrative detailing such interaction;<\/p>\n

– Notes the Irish Human Rights Commission Assessment of the Human Rights Issues Arising in relation to the “Magdalene Laundries”;<\/p>\n

– Notes the UN Committee Against Torture recommendations on the Magdalene Laundries, its insistence that the State ensure that survivors obtain redress and its grave concern at the failure by the State to institute prompt, independent and thorough investigations into the allegations of ill-treatment of the women;<\/p>\n

– Further welcomes the public statement of June 2011 by four religious congregations who ran 10 Magdalene Laundries expressing a willingness to bring greater clarity, understanding, healing and justice in the interests of all the women involved;<\/p>\n

– Further acknowledges that there is growing evidence of the State (a) sending women and girls to the Magdalene Laundries, (b) providing the Religious Orders with direct and indirect financial support, and (c) failing to supervise the Religious Orders operation of the Magdalene Laundries;<\/p>\n

– Considers most serious the allegations of forced labour in the Magdalene Laundries, noting the incarceration and use of women and children as workers without pay would constitute forced labour under the 1930 Forced Labour Convention of the International Labour Organisation which Ireland ratified in 1931, and accepts that the rejection and prohibition of slavery is a peremptory norm of international law;<\/p>\n

– Acknowledges the need for immediate and meaningful discussion on an apology and redress<\/p>\n

– Commits to providing immediate funding for and implementation of a helpline for the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries;<\/p>\n

– Commits to supporting survivors in accessing pensions that reflect their years of work in the Magdalene Laundries;<\/p>\n

– Commits to an open and meaningful debate on the issue of an apology, redress and restorative justice measures once the Inter-Departmental Committee has reported.<\/p>\n

Mary Lou McDonald, Gerry Adams, Michael Colreavy, Se\u00e1n Crowe, Pearse Doherty, Dessie Ellis, Martin Ferris, P\u00e1draig Mac Lochlainn, Sandra McLellan, Jonathan O\u2019Brien, Caoimhgh\u00edn \u00d3 Caol\u00e1in, Aengus \u00d3 Snodaigh, Brian Stanley, Peadar T\u00f3ib\u00edn, Joe Higgins, Catherine Murphy, Finian McGrath , Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, Maureen O’Sullivan, Thomas Pringle, Seamus Healy, Clare Daly, Mattie McGrath, Tom Fleming, Joe Higgins, John Halligan, Shane Ross, Joan Collins, Richard Boyd Barrett, Michael Healy Rae, Mick Wallace, Stephen Donnelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magdalene Laundries\u00a0to be raised in Dail Dublin South West\u00a0TD Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0has\u00a0said that his party Sinn Fein are to use its Private Members time in the D\u00e1il next week to move a motion on the abuses that took place in the Magdalene Laundries. The motion has been tabled by Sinn F\u00e9in with the support of 17 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}