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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Act Employment Targets (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 6 February 2018, the actions he has taken to ensure that the attention of employees of bodies under the aegis of his Department has been drawn to the fact that the completion of the staff census form is voluntary. [18646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Communications (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 446. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, following a High Court judgment (details supplied), he will remove his predecessor’s public statement of 24 April 2013 from his Department's website. [18647/18]

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to extend a warm welcome to those who join us for this debate this afternoon. I commend my colleague, Deputy O'Reilly, on her ongoing work and advocacy in respect of this issue and on bringing forward this motion. In recent weeks, I have travelled across the State and met nurses and their representatives. At each meeting, the story has always been the same. Our nurses are under...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: To take up that point, there is considerable local frustration regarding the fact that much of the construction in the area relates to student accommodation. I am not overstating things. I represent the area and know it very well. I am not overstating matters when I say that very many people in the inner city, in the old flats complexes, are living in conditions that are not fit for human...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: These are the finest of people and the finest of families and it is no reflection on them. They live in flats in which there is no room for a kitchen table or a dining-room table where a child would do his or her obair bhaile or where a family can eat a meal together. It is astonishing. In fact, when Kieran Mulvey was doing the groundwork for what would subsequently be his report, he...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Stop fighting. We heard you.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's role in the North East Inner City Initiative. [17610/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's role in the annual 1916 commemoration. [17611/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Howlin has made a good proposal. I have a number of questions on State commemorations generally. In the build up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising, one aspect that worked very well was the all-party consultative group on commemorations. It was first established in 2005 and reconstituted in 2011. It was envisaged that the group would look at a host of events over the course of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you. Is that what the Acting Chairman's hand gesture meant?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: He could have said, "Your time is up."

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The 1918 general election agus an Céad Dáil freisin are certainly events that require State commemoration.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Deputy is on dangerous ground now.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [17609/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody believes Mr. Davis's assertion because it is not true. It is the stuff of "Alice in Wonderland" and I really wish the British would desist from positing these non-starters. It is clearly part of their strategy to play for time in the hope that either Europe or the Government in Dublin will blink and they will get away with pushing the Irish question indefinitely down the pipe. That...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Increasingly, parents across the State, including the Taoiseach's constituency of Dublin West, contact me on the lack of places for children with autism spectrum disorder, ASD, in ASD units or mainstream classrooms. That experience is common among members of the Sinn Féin group. We have lost count of the number of parents who have contacted our representatives in desperation because...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Where are the children supposed to go?

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are being offered home tuition.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I join the Taoiseach in commending the women who have come through the awful ordeal that was visited on them as very small girls. I commend them on their bravery. I accept that the protection of our children is now a matter which looms large in public policy in a way that it did not ten or 15 years ago. However, there is no room for complacency. I recall very accurately that as we dealt...