Results 6,361-6,380 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: One of the controversies of note in recent months has been the operation of the strategic communications unit in the Taoiseach's Department, as Deputy O'Sullivan has just noted. It was noticeable that the Department chose last Friday evening to release a number of documents under freedom of information that had been requested by many journalists for several weeks. Was it entirely...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach mentioned the Project Ireland 2040 plan. He regularly refers to it as one of the policies that form the centrepiece of his Administration. Why was Rosslare Europort omitted from that strategic plan? That seems extraordinary given the threatened disruption posed by Brexit. The port is significant and important in any event but it will take on an additional strategic...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of measures in A Programme for a Partnership Government. [21282/18]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal, officials from the HSE and CervicalCheck appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts and in evidence CervicalCheck's programme manager, Mr. John Gleeson, denied that anyone in CervicalCheck has misled the State Claims Agency by informing it that the women who are the subject of the audit had been informed. This happened in the context of...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Just so the Ceann Comhairle understands-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let me perfectly give the Ceann Comhairle another piece of information to accompany what I have said to the Taoiseach. It is that the response from the State Claims Agency, to which I have referred and in which it said that the assertion made at the committee does not tally with the facts, is on the record and in the possession of a committee of the Oireachtas, so these are not facts or...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you. A question then arises on the investigation being carried out by Dr. Gabriel Scally. How can Dr. Scally have confidence in carrying out a thorough investigation in the spirit of transparency that we were promised when it now emerges that CervicalCheck and senior officials, far from acting in a spirit of transparency, are, in fact, it seems continuing with what Vicky Phelan's...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I do not.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I do not.
- Leaders' Questions (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, Irish society is once again faced with a scandalous mistreatment of citizens, particularly women and children, by the State as we stare face-on into the scandal, not of incorrect registrations but of fraudulent, deliberate mis-registration and illegal adoptions. Yesterday, the Minister, Deputy Zappone, confirmed what so many previous Governments had known for decades. She...
- Leaders' Questions (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is quite correct that this is not about retribution but what those affected tell me is that they want, above all, honest and that is why language matters here. It matters that we do not try to minimise what happened. It matters that we do not try to pretend that it was an accident, that it was a clerical error. It was deliberate, fraudulent and illegal and robbed the children,...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU West Balkans summit in Sofia, Bulgaria on 17 May 2018. [22242/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke to the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [22244/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagement with the British Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa May on 17 May 2018. [22695/18]
- Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Saturday was a momentous day for all the people of the State. Ireland is changing and the old certainties are being challenged. A new and better Ireland is emerging. Saturday was a day when those who had been silenced demanded to be heard. It was a day when we collectively and decisively broke from the past. It was a day when the people said this was our time and our Ireland. It was a...
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise with the Taoiseach an extremely important and pressing matter relating to the ongoing CervicalCheck scandal. More than three weeks after requesting access to the medical records and despite public and private assurances to the contrary, some patients have still to receive those records. That is despite it being made clear to CervicalCheck that these are required urgently....
- Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not proposing this discrete move, as the Taoiseach described it, as being optimum. The optimal situation is that we could move the legislation within a matter of weeks and give immediate effect to the will of the people. We all accept, however, that is just not possible and, in any event, we have to be sure-footed in the drafting of the new legislation. The bottom line is that...
- Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Saturday was a momentous day for the people of Ireland. We voted overwhelmingly to remove the eighth amendment from the Constitution. We said in a strong and unified voice that we would no longer tolerate Irish women being treated as second-class citizens. We said we trusted women to make the best decisions on their pregnancies and healthcare. We demonstrated the instinctive compassion of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (23 May 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [22243/18]