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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (19 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to introduce an amendment to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 to give effect to the programme for Government commitment to retain a State pension age from January 2021 of 66; and if so, when the amending legislation will be introduced. [37461/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (19 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal mechanism by which she plans to defer the planned increase in the State pension age from January 2021. [37468/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about the students with vulnerable parents?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have raised the issue several times but the Taoiseach has failed to answer my questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The questions should be grouped differently then, a Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach is aware, negotiations recommenced this week with the intention of resolving the major outstanding issues on which there is huge concern, including those relating to the Internal Market Bill. Time is running out, so we need to ensure there is a level playing field on the big issues, including fisheries. The joint committee is working on solutions to the issues regarding...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have very little confidence that the Tories will ensure their protection.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [36519/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have previously raised with the Taoiseach the urgent need for remote education for children who live with a medically vulnerable person. Our offices have received correspondence from distraught parents with very serious medical conditions who are terrified of their children bringing home Covid-19. Where the threat to people's health is so serious that families decide to keep their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the issue of testing at airports and ports. Last week, the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Deputy Naughton, confirmed that Dublin Airport and Cork Airport have a capacity of just 150 daily PCR tests and that this will increase to just 300 tests by year end. Even taking account of the 91% fall in passenger numbers recorded last month, 8,500 people still pass...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raise the issue of Dublin Zoo. Zoos across the island are under pressure but Dublin Zoo is in big trouble and we woke this morning to the news that it might face closure. I need not tell the Taoiseach that a closure would be devastating for local employment and the economy, as well as for tourism. Dublin Zoo is one of our key tourist attractions and has occupied a special place for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Public housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's response is incoherent gibberish and he knows it. The Taoiseach has changed his tune from when he sat on the Opposition benches and correctly challenged the Government of the day to give an account of itself and challenged the then Minister for Justice and Equality to give an account of the process by which a selection for a judicial appointment was made. The standards then...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Taoiseach's Government voted to block the Dáil from putting questions to the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, regarding the appointment of the former Attorney General, Séamus Woulfe, to the Supreme Court. His claim that this would impinge on the separation of powers is utter nonsense, as he well knows. In the Dáil in 2017, the Taoiseach said that any...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [34837/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Earlier this year, the HSE commissioned a rapid assessment of a suicide cluster which took place in Ballyfermot last year. The outcome of the assessment was published late last month and it makes heartbreaking and alarming reading. The area considered by the assessment has had a female suicide rate three times the national average since 2015. However, it was the deaths of eight women in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the data protection unit in his Department. [33883/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise two specific matters with the Taoiseach. The first relates to the records of the interdepartmental committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries or, as it is more commonly known, the McAleese report. In its statement on mother and baby homes last month, the Government committed to ensuring that the rights of all citizens to access personal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The failure of the Department of Justice to inform the victims or their legal representatives of this data breach has caused untold hurt and concern.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know but these are important matters.