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Dr Maeve O'Rourke
@maeveorourke
Lecturer @IrishCentreHR | Author, Human Rights and the Care of Older People (OUP 2024) | Barrister @33BedfordRow | Also @maglaundries @clann_project 🎻
Oct 25, 2020 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
Colm Keena's piece in the Irish Times will hopefully be read alongside my previous Op Eds that explain key issues arising with #UnsealTheArchives

(here thejournal.ie/readme/maeve-o… and here irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…)

and I provide a response to Colm's points in the thread below: First, the article states that the Commission's purpose was 'to bring story of what happened in institutions into the open'. This is pretty much the problem, that the Commission has functioned to provide a story to the general public and not to give access to those affected by
Oct 24, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
It is necessary bearing in mind how many people @cmcgettrick @Ka_ODonnell and I have asked to trust us, and work with us, through the @clann_project and in other ways to respond to Senator's @barrymward extremely serious, disparaging remarks in the Seanad

The Senator has accused us of undertaking 'a sustained and dishonest campaign of misinformation', including creating an email campaign that was 'grossly misinformed'.

We are said to have 'wilfully put out information that has deliberately caused upset, anxiety, hurt'.
Oct 24, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
#Stand4Truth

If DPC said exact opposite, how can the AG have advised & Government swallowed (while refusing to release any of the correspondence) that GDPR was ‘explicitly excluded’ from applying to Commission’s archive?(see 👇)

irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4007…

DPC statement in thread: “The DPC was consulted by the Department on the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) for the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020.
Oct 16, 2020 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Today in the Seanad the Govt continued to state that (1) the 'entire premise' of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 is that inquiries are confidential, and (2) the Minister is therefore forced to keep the archive, including survivors' personal data, 'sealed'. Not true: 1. The Oireachtas is not bound by the current provisions of the 2004 Act, as it is demonstrating by giving part of the Commission's archive to TUSLA. Clearly, it can change the law.

2. The 2004 Act does not force Commissions to operate fully in private.This Commission chose to.
Oct 13, 2020 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
A thread in response to the Govt's plan to allow the Mother and Baby Homes Commission's archive to be sealed for 30 years (except for a database on mothers and children detained in 11 institutions which it wants to give to TUSLA):

1. The Bill shows the Oireachtas is not bound by the provisions of the 2004 Commissions of Investigation Act. It can legislate - as it is intending to do regarding the database & records it wants to send to TUSLA - to 'un-seal' material gathered or created by the Commission.
Dec 14, 2018 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
All this talk of the Irish Parliamentary Party in #Election18 has reminded me how in 1901 in Westminster they forced an exemption from inspection for Magdalene Laundries under the mammoth Factory and Workshop Act 1901 - see section 103(4). #votail100 (Thread) John Redmond's argument (which you can read here: hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1901/j…) went as follows:
Nov 15, 2018 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: This piece by @ococonuts reveals what appears to be yet more disturbing treatment of Magdalene survivors by the Department of Justice.

Women excluded from Magdalene laundries redress must provide ‘records’ of work irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/i… This week the Department published an 'Addendum' to the Terms of the Magdalene scheme which finally sets up a process to compensate women who were forced to work in Magdalene Laundries as children -- while they should have been in school. justice.ie/en/JELR/Addend…
Aug 22, 2018 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
Thread: In 2014, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child examined the Holy See's human rights record. Regarding #Ireland it noted patterns of 'torture and other cruel or degrading treatment' and 'sale of children, trafficking & abduction' #papalvisit tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treat… UNCRC noted Vatican's failure to investigate the arbitrary incarceration and 'slavery-like' conditions of girls and women in Magdalene Laundries