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Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...because of NAMA's failure to hand over all documentation relating to the sale of Project Eagle. I understand NAMA is now co-operating on that. Will that deadline for publication be met as indicated in the commission's first report?

Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...system is not fit for purpose and is letting citizens down. It is my understanding that the Gender Recognition Act has been reviewed and that the report is due to published soon. While the indications are that the review calls for extended gender recognition for trans youth and non-binary persons, which is positive, we will be in a space that the law recognises and embraces our LGBTQ+...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... Members will know that the Scally team had great difficulty in accessing information from the HSE in the first instance. I will not revisit all that. More importantly, I want the Taoiseach to indicate to the affected women when the 3,000 smear test slides will be examined. When will the commission of inquiry be established? Is it a certainty for September? I want the Taoiseach to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to addressing the issue but progress in that regard has been painstakingly slow. The latest statistics show that the problem is getting worse. Recent figures from the Central Statistics Office indicate that, on average, women are paid 14% less than men compared with a 12% difference in 2012. That deterioration and discrepancy is unacceptable. It sends a clear message that the work done...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...be full pay equalisation and that, having trained the best and brightest, we are not content any longer to allow them to emigrate, thereby losing all of their skill and expertise. Can the Taoiseach indicate in concrete terms how he proposes to address this situation? It is not just a case of how much money is spent. We could debate the overall resourcing of the health service on another...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (9 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to each strand of this work in the division? How many people are assigned to the EU-Brexit responsibility and how many are assigned to work on matters pertaining to the North? Will he also indicate what the division of responsibility is within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in respect of both of these areas? We touched on issues pertaining to the institutions in the...

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...but potentially will be driven to its knees. Working as a nurse in this State has become such an unattractive proposition for significant numbers of final year nursing students that they have already indicated their intention to leave Ireland and move elsewhere for better pay and conditions. This is not just young or newly-qualified nurses. There is now a trend among highly experienced...

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: That, too, tells where the Taoiseach's balance of consideration and emphasis lies. I will put the question to the Taoiseach again. There is a request for four additional staff places. He has indicated difficulties in recruitment.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (21 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...are all concerned to ensure the European Union will hold the line in there being no hard border on the island and there being full protection for the Good Friday Agreement in all of its parts. The indications are that our European partners understand this. Nonetheless, nothing is finished until it is finished and nothing will be achieved, in a legal sense, until it is written in a legal...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., attention will correctly turn to what might or might not find legislative expression. That should not obscure the experiences of the eighth amendment. Let that not happen. The Minister has indicated in a sensible manner that he might be fully faithful, or largely faithful, to the findings of the all-party Oireachtas committee. That to me makes sense. The committee's deliberations...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...seems that the proposal arises from a report submitted to Cabinet last week by the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Phelan. Will the Taoiseach indicate whether this is the report that was promised in A Programme for a Partnership Government? If it is, why has it not been made available to the Oireachtas? Can the Taoiseach please make...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...well for the British contribution or its ability to come up with solutions rather than political rhetoric. Can the Taoiseach tell us whether or not Mrs May and the Conservative government has indicated when they might come forward with real solutions rather than fantasy?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: In response to a parliamentary question from Deputy Ó Broin yesterday, the Taoiseach said that an indicative budget of €1.5 million has been allocated for publicity in respect of Project Ireland 2040 and confirmed that the launch event for this plan cost approximately €45,000. This is a ludicrous abuse of taxpayers' money, particularly given that so many elements of this...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...is cast iron or rock solid. The Tánaiste referred to negotiating guidelines and the possibility of a draft withdrawal agreement being published next year. I want to ask the Tánaiste about a more immediate concern. Will the Tánaiste indicate whether the Taoiseach will seek additional assurances from the British Prime Minister and our EU partners before allowing the talks...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...must not resile. It is vital that we have clarity and binding agreements. Without this the process should not be allowed to progress. Any talk of parallel processes is nonsense and dangerous at that. Will the Tánaiste indicate if this is the position he will adopt in his meeting with Donald Tusk in Dublin tomorrow? Will the Tánaiste commit to using the veto if the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (28 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...at no point was an amnesty for any combatant of the crown forces or other force even considered, much less agreed to. I have spoken to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade who has very strongly indicated his opposition to any suggestion that there be a Statute of Limitations or an amnesty. Can the Taoiseach offer to the House his assessment of that proposition?

Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did they indicate to the Department that they would prefer a role other than a position of chief executive or did the Department apply some criteria to decide the matter? In other words, did the four people who were not successfully appointed to the new positions volunteer to be redeployed or did Mr. Loftus make that decision?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Members will recall that we had invited Nursing Homes Ireland to appear last week and it regrettably declined but indicated in its correspondence a willingness to appear. I thought we had agreed that we would take it up on that. I think it was on the suggestion of Deputy Catherine Connolly, if I am not mistaken, that we would write to Nursing Homes Ireland and invite it in. It required...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...What criteria were applied and how was the decision arrived at to recommend the reopening of Stepaside Garda station as against other Garda stations? I do not understand the reason the Garda could indicate there would be no problem with the committee having that information, yet we received correspondence in August indicating we could not have it. Given the committee's experience of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (5 Jul 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in the strategy to the need to devote time and resources to planning for the future, funding and reform of the health service, it is disappointing that the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, has indicated that he will, in a piecemeal way, adopt the report produced by the all-party Committee on the future of Healthcare. The crisis in the service is evident. The waiting lists are soaring,...