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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise two issues. First, I share the concerns that have been voiced here around the slowness of the vaccination programme. It is absolutely imperative we have those conversations, not just with London and the British system, but that we explore all avenues in respect of supply. I believe the issues around delivery of vaccines also need to be straightened out. I raised with the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The HSE is proposing to remove in-school speech and language therapy services from the Holy Family School for the Deaf on the Navan Road and, I think, from the deaf schools in Cork and Limerick. Whatever the merits of the new children's disability network teams for provision of these services to the general population, it is beyond belief that consideration would even be given to removing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do they work in banks or in Departments? Will the Taoiseach join me in stating that Davy bringing in a third party to carry out an investigation of these matters is wholly unacceptable and insufficient and that it ought to be the Central Bank that sets the terms for such an investigation and oversees it? We need full transparency here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: We all know the facts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, two things happened in the world of high finance which caused understandable public outrage. First came the announcement that the Government will again allow the payment of outrageous bonuses to elite staff at AIB, a bank bailed out by the Irish people, as the Taoiseach will recall. Then, we had the news that 16 employees at Davy, many of them senior executives, had broken the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Anyone who hoped that the toxic culture of greed and personal gain had been banished from financial services - from the upper echelons and the elites of financial services - had their eyes opened again last week. Davy has made it clear that this culture is alive and well. People who imagined that the culture of acquiescence in all this on the part of Fianna Fáil and successive...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The "RTÉ Investigates" programme, "Who Am I?" catalogued trauma and distress. While this generated some shock among the public, those who were not shocked by all of this are those who have lived their lives seeking the answer to that profoundly simply question, "who am I?". Those also not shocked were the State and its agencies, which have known that illegal adoption and the illegal...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when construction will recommence on a Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12656/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 317. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when construction will commence on a Garda station (details supplied); if he considers it essential construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12660/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost to date of the maintenance and protection of the national monument buildings at Nos. 14-17 Moore Street since the Office of Public Works assumed responsibility for the buildings in 2017, in tabular form. [13328/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the total expenditure of €4.48 million for the conservation, protection and restoration of the national monument buildings at Nos. 14-17 Moore Street; the amount spent on project management, architectural and engineering supervision, security, quantity surveying services and so on in tabular form; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 691. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to combat the rise in crime in the north inner city area of Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12657/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 692. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans in relation to combating the rise in crime in the north inner city of Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12661/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 781. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the HSE decision to suspend services at a service (details supplied) in County Dublin; when these services will resume; the alternative services in place for persons in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12681/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 782. To ask the Minister for Health the HIV and STI public testing services that are currently in operation under level 5 Covid-19 restrictions in County Dublin; his plans to restore services which have been suspended due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12682/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 783. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the Covid-19-related challenges faced in delivering both clinical and community-based sexual health services in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12683/21]

An Ghaeilge agus An Ghaeltacht: Ráitis (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Bhí grá agam i gcónaí don seanfhocal “Is beatha teanga í a labhairt”. Is íomhá galánta é. Cuireann sé i gcuimhne dúinn go bhfuil an Ghaeilge beo mar theanga. Inniu, ba mhaith liom tacú leis na cainteoirí, na grúpaí agus na pobail ar fud na tíre atá ag ceiliúradh Seachtain na Gaeilge. Ba...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: On several occasions, I have raised with the Taoiseach the need to give priority to the vaccination of family carers. I am disappointed they are still being ignored by the Taoiseach's Government. I said before that family carers are not looking to gazump anybody else, but they believe they deserve a level of priority and special mention beyond the general population. Their big concern is...