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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 634. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an apology will be issued to mothers who were denied knowledge of their rights, which prevented them from giving informed consent. [26927/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 743. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects Fitzgibbon Street Garda station in Dublin 1 to re-open. [27217/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the day services for persons with disabilities that remain closed; and the date that each centre is expected to reopen in tabular form. [26329/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 777. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be put in place to address reduced capacity in reopened day services for persons with a disability which is as high as 60% for some services. [26330/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 778. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that will be allocated to the reopening of day services for persons with a disability; if the expenditure will be ring-fenced for this purpose; and if the expenditure will remain separate from the HSE winter plan. [26331/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 956. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 10 September 2020, when the relevant section will be commenced of the Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020 (details supplied); if decisions on the associated funding for the measure have been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27168/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raised the issue of increased utility costs with the Taoiseach earlier this month. During our exchange he gave an undertaking that the Government would engage with Electric Ireland on the matter. I wrote to him subsequently raising the matter again and last week I raised it again to follow up on the outcome of those Government discussions. At that time, the Taoiseach informed me he had...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change. [25393/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to establish a unit in his Department to co-ordinate social dialogue. [23928/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to deal with two things. On the work envisaged in the establishment of this unit in the Department of the Taoiseach, I understand the models of sectoral engagement are different from the old social partnership process. I ask the Taoiseach to confirm that for me. There is no doubt that workers, businesses and all of society face sudden and unprecedented challenges. The public health...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about County Monaghan?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has no answer. It would be nice to share it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the very real sense of abandonment that citizens with disabilities and their families, carers and service providers feel. I asked him to commit to ring-fencing the necessary funding to ensure that services get back up and running to capacity. The Taoiseach cited, of course, the Covid-19 protocols, which I recognise. More importantly, the services, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: On a point of order, the Taoiseach has responded in the manner he has. I just have to say-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know that we do not have a fact-checking facility for the Oireachtas but the facts that I set out about the wage subsidy scheme and the pandemic unemployment payment-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----are accurate and I would like that recorded on the record of the Dáil. I do not appreciate being accused of laying untruths before the House. That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, has withdrawn from the Low Pay Commission. Its general secretary, Patricia King, stated that it did so because the commission was not prepared to go beyond an increase of 1% in the minimum wage for 2021. A 1% increase would mean an increase of 10 cent an hour for the workers affected - the thousands of low-paid workers who have kept us going during...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The only thing that is extraordinary is the Taoiseach's extraordinary lack of fairness and his even more extraordinary lack of self-awareness in this regard. Let us rehearse the facts again. The Government's new wage subsidy scheme excludes 153,000 workers who earn €151 a week, or less. They are not eligible and are excluded from the scheme. That hurts those workers, it hurts their...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a station at Ballybough to service Ballybough, Croke Park, East Point and north Docklands will be considered in the DART extension programme. [25694/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff from each of the CHOs redeployed from their contracted role to provide Covid-19 swabbing functions in test centres each month from May to September 2020, in tabular form. [25817/20]