Results 20,141-20,160 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [30736/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (12 Jul 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [32201/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 104. To ask the Taoiseach when he will publish his diary for quarter 2 of 2023 on the website of his Department. [33974/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 443 of 9 May 2023, the reason for the delay in publishing the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022 due at the end of Q2 as set out in the Justice Plan 2023. [34330/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces (12 Jul 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 242. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the north inner city drug and alcohol task force consultation report; the reasons for not providing the task force members with a copy of the completed report; and when he will re-establish the taskforce. [34462/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. I also wish Barry the very best in his tasks and duties. As the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment knows, workers and families continue to struggle with an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis and households remain under huge pressure, with massive energy bills, grocery bills and fuel prices increasing once again. At the centre of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister's rhetoric and his bluff on the issue of housing convinces precisely nobody. The idea that he would rate the Government's performance on housing as a reflection of housing being its number one priority is truly terrifying if that is the Minister's idea of the Government's best shot at sorting out a crisis that has now been with us for many years. The targets are wrong to begin...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government increased the price of petrol and diesel on 1 September. People can see the consequences of that at the pumps. Incredibly, the Government proposes to increase fuel prices even further, with a double whammy on 11 October and 31 October. Fuel prices, as a consequence, will hit close to €2 per litre. I do not know how the Government expects hard-pressed families that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning many crèches across the country closed their doors for three days due to frustration with Government policy. As we speak, and as the Taoiseach knows, providers are now protesting at the gates of the Dáil. Of course, the big losers in this situation are thousands of families who will experience significant disruption this week - parents left in the lurch, seeking...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that response. Notwithstanding that this is a minority-led dispute, as he says, I am sure he will accept that those concerned do in many ways speak for the entirety of the sector, certainly for an awful lot of families, who still experience childcare costs that are too high or who in many instances experience a complete lack of availability of childcare places....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would like to see the Government fund the sector.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is this questions to the Opposition?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 1 September, the Government increased the price of petrol and diesel by 7 cent and 5 cent per litre, respectively. As the Taoiseach knows, we are in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis. In that regard, it makes no sense and flies in the face of any semblance of fairness to go ahead with the increases the Government has proposed for 11 and 31 October. If they go ahead, the Government...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That was a pathetic answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. The shocking revelations regarding paediatric surgery at Temple Street Children's Hospital have been met with huge anger and disbelief. It is hard to wrap one's head around the pain and damage experienced by the children and families affected, with 19 vulnerable children harmed, traumatised, in what was a catastrophic, unfathomable breach of care...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I absolutely agree with the Taoiseach that nobody should jump to conclusions. What I am asking him to do, and this is a necessary precursor to getting the terms of reference for the review right, is simply to establish, as a matter of fact, whether a meeting or meetings occurred involving clinicians, and also the head of Children's Health Ireland, CHI, in which these experimental surgical...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I join in commending members of An Garda Síochána, our Defence Forces, the Naval Service and the Army Ranger Wing on the successful operation off our coast yesterday. It demonstrates the need to invest in Naval Service capacity and in the wider Defence Forces. The truth is that our Naval Service cannot monitor our seas effectively and this is due to decades of under-investment....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (28 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 282. To ask the Minister for Health what funding is available to older persons seeking support to adapt their homes via the health-age-friendly-homes programme; what steps older persons seeking support should take to access this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42011/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Garda Representative Association, GRA, has started its protest against roster changes that are due to kick in from next month. This action sees gardaí refusing voluntary overtime. It is an escalation in a dispute that has deepened and intensified over the past year. It is very concerning that matters have come to this point. I have no doubt the public is very alarmed at this turn...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is fair to say that all of us across the House want to see this dispute resolved. It is unconscionable that we would have a further escalation in this dispute. It is clear that relationships have been strained and are very damaged. I appeal to all concerned to re-engage in a calm-headed way. Rostering must be resolved but either party digging in and being intemperate or immovable on...