Results 4,401-4,420 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 693. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of data protection breaches identified within his Department in 2019. [33840/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of data protection breaches identified within her Department in 2019. [33841/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 939. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of data protection breaches identified within her Department in 2019. [33852/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 986. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of data protection breaches identified within his Department in 2019. [33839/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1081. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of data protection breaches identified within her Department in 2019. [33849/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1172. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address matters raised by an association (details supplied) regarding operating under level 5 restrictions due to come into effect from midnight on 21 October 2020; and if he will engage with the association on the matter raised. [32518/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1307. To ask the Minister for Health the guidelines in place for weddings taking place under level 5 of the Living with Covid plan; the maximum number of guests permitted; if guests are permitted to stay overnight at a venue; if guests, the wedding party and associated persons can travel outside of the 5 km restrictions to attend the wedding; if musicians are permitted to attend and play at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1406. To ask the Minister for Health the reason only scientists registered with CORU can be considered to perform Covid-19 testing roles; if he plans to expand the criteria to consider recognising alternative degrees as equivalent to the current list of acceptance criteria, in view of the challenges facing the testing services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33657/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1461. To ask the Minister for Health the number of data protection breaches identified within his Department in 2019 [33847/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of data protection breaches identified within his Department in 2019. [33838/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1574. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has circulated an instruction to local authorities to cease call and collect public library services for the duration of the current level 5 restrictions. [32926/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1592. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of data protection breaches identified within her Department in 2019. [33851/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (22 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his Department’s implementation of the health and well-being package of supports for former residents of Mother and Baby Homes and Related Institutions announced in 2019. [32122/20]

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: What happened behind the high walls of the mother and baby homes casts a long and very dark shadow over our country. The women and children, many of whom were placed in these institutions by the State, were abused and exploited. They were stigmatised, vilified, and considered outcasts from society. The awful abuse of single mothers, the forced separation of families and the horrors of what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the Taoiseach's shared island webinar which is due to take place tomorrow. I look forward to that and to the process wherein all parties can actively participate in the shaping of the work and mission of the shared island unit. My more substantive point relates to Covid-19. Following on from Deputy Tóibín, I understand the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [29924/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Taoiseach spoke about the EU's co-ordination efforts in terms of Covid-19. I hope he will agree that in addition to the specific healthcare and services co-ordination in terms of data, expertise and a vaccine, the Taoiseach and his European counterparts are also discussing the wider economic and social challenges that undoubtedly will need to be addressed. These are things...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are all agreed that the manner in which the Debenhams workers have been treated by their former employer is a shame and a disgrace. This week, Members from across the House, including ourselves in Sinn Féin, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Labour Party, the Social Democrats, the Independent Group, the Rural Independent Group and others have come together to call on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for again rehearsing the figures for testing. I am aware that the target of 100,000 set in the springtime has now been met and surpassed. However, in the words of the WHO, "You will never test too much", and that capacity will need to be built on. I asked about contact tracing. The facts are that this system collapsed over the weekend, which is extremely alarming,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: At midnight we will enter our second lockdown of this pandemic. Workers, families and communities are being asked to make enormous sacrifices once again. People will lose their jobs and businesses are being told to close. Families are being told to stay apart and lives are being disrupted and put on hold. Understandably, there is a great deal of anxiety. There is also anger and...