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Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (14 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today we again acknowledge those who have been lost to the virus, now almost 2,000 souls across our island. We extend our sympathies and solidarity to their families, friends and communities. The Taoiseach correctly set out that we will gradually unwind the emergency measures we have asked people to live with in recent weeks. I think we all agree that is the sensible, prudent and only way...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 485. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be released to the HSE disability section for a person (details supplied) to avail of residential services. [4124/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the participant payment for a service (details supplied). [4826/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 693. To ask the Minister for Health if alternative accommodation has been secured for a service (details supplied) in view of the fact the leases are due to expire. [4827/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent HSE staff employed at a service (details supplied) in each of the years 2012 to 2019. [4828/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 738. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be released for a home care package for a person (details supplied) in order that the person can leave the Mater Hospital. [5049/20]

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach needs to make sure that the €350 is paid.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course, the budget in the North is a subvented budget - the Taoiseach is quite correct - unlike that budgetary parameters that we have here. I am glad to hear the Taoiseach confirm that the payments will be extended beyond June. Will he indicate for how long these payments will be extended? Will he indicate that the level of payment at €350 will remain the same? Will he indicate...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will speak for several minutes, after which I would like a response from the Taoiseach before I continue. I start by sending sympathies to all of the bereaved, extending solidarity to all of the sick and wishing them a full recovery, thanking every worker on the front line and acknowledging the efforts of our people as they live with extraordinary public health restrictions on their lives....

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Covid-19 emergency has presented the people of Europe with an unprecedented crisis and challenge. The virus has attacked our societies, ravaged our economies and tested our communities in previously unimaginable ways. Despite the painful and cruel nature of this pandemic the people of Europe have rallied and demonstrated, as the Taoiseach put it, Europe at its best. There is...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. This is a problem now. The announcement was made of 100,000 tests per week and the presumption is that to do that one must have the necessary capacity. I believe the correct approach is for these 100,000 tests to be real tests, not some notion where we say theoretically we have the capacity to do this. The Taoiseach will know as well as I that from the beginning of...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ba mhaith liom cheist a chur. I would like to ask a question and I also ask that the Taoiseach does not talk down the clock as I would like to speak again. I hope we will have an exchange.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. I will say a few words, ask the Taoiseach to respond and then I will say another few words – kind of like a tennis match.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to add my voice of sympathy and to extend my condolences to everybody who has buried a loved one in these most heartbreaking of circumstances. It is important to acknowledge that from the start the right model and approach was adopted in response to the public health emergency and credit is due to everybody for that. The approach being test, isolate and trace and to do that in a...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh míle maith agat. I thank everyone who sent me kind wishes. Thank you all very much. It was very thoughtful of you. Having been sick and having experienced the virus at first hand, it sharpens one's understanding of everything surrounding this public health emergency, most particularly the big gap there has been between, on the one hand, the very ambitious announcements...

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (19 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will share time with Deputy Louise O'Reilly. Across this island there are citizens, families and communities bracing themselves for what will be a very tough few months. The crisis presents us with the challenge of our lifetime to protect health, defend livelihoods and save lives. Nobody here has all the answers to all the challenges we face but we have been elected and we have a job...

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Deputy.

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The duty for all of us living on this island is to be sensible, thoughtful, not to panic and to do everything we can to stop the spread of coronavirus. People are naturally concerned. The WHO has said we are in "uncharted territory". However, we are not in a war. On this island, we now have nine confirmed cases, eight of which are linked to travel to Italy and one a case of community...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have not had the opportunity to discuss issues relating to the EU since the UK formally left the EU on 31 January. I begin my remarks, therefore, by paying tribute to the former Sinn Féin MEP for the North of Ireland, Martina Anderson. I commend her on her tireless work and effort as a Member of the European Parliament for the past eight years. Go raibh míle maith agat,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need to be careful in the mechanism we choose for the purposes the Deputies have set out. I share the view of the Business Committee that all the time, attention and resources of those at the front line of this emergency need to be spent on keeping the public safe. That said, we have a caretaker Government. It is absolutely essential that those of us on the other benches not be left as...