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- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 97. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [9165/25]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 102. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will meet next. [9167/25]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: "Children were not protected from the risk of harm." That is the line that really sums up the HIQA report into governance failures at Children's Health Ireland, CHI, published this morning. The investigation was commissioned following revelations that non-approved springs were implanted in three children during surgery at Temple Street Hospital. My first thought today is with those...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Dúirt an Taoiseach go bhfuil an méid atá sa tuarascáil dochreidte, ach níl sé seo fíor mar bhí a fhios ag an Rialtas agus bhí a fhios ag na tuismitheoirí an méid a bhí ar siúl i CHI. The Taoiseach said this is incredible. It is certainly shocking and deeply unacceptable but it is not incredible. This was known. Parents knew...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has not read the report.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not in dispute.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Under Standing Order 35(3) I wish to move an amendment such that, for Thursday's business, a proposal No. 4 be included, on the establishment of committees. We have waited far too long for this. The idea that we wait until the middle of May before we have committees up and running is unacceptable at this point, and I believe it can and should be remedied. We have a lot of very important...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----some of which have been raised today.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: And we need functioning committees very quickly.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It makes no sense.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I moved an amendment. The Ceann Comhairle needs to take a vote on my amendment.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The number of schools in financial distress has soared. In the 2022-23 school year, five schools were referred to the financial support services unit, but the number has jumped significantly to 34 schools this year. Nearly half those are DEIS schools and special schools. The sharp increase in operating costs sees many schools struggling to keep the doors open. Since early last year,...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What action does the Taoiseach propose to take on this matter?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to read to the Taoiseach a letter from Nikita Clarke, who is from Dublin and who I met recently. She suffers from suspected endometriosis: Thank you for taking time out of your day to read this letter. Please listen carefully, this is not easy to talk or write about. I am 18-years-old and instead of getting my driver's licence, picking out a Debs dress, studying for my leaving cert,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nikita is 18-years-old. I am more than happy to forward the correspondence to the Taoiseach and the Minister. Nikita will travel to Romania to get the care she requires. Despite the assertions in his response, the fact is that the level of care here is simply unacceptable.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know of a woman who lost a kidney to endometriosis. I know a 27-year-old who went through a radical hysterectomy because the disease, in her case, had eaten away at her pelvic organs and bowel. The services are not available to women and there should not be any attempt to dismiss or downplay the real experiences of women and girls. They are asking now for proper investment. Have a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government knows this. Yet, that treatment and service are not available.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why is the Government instead offering treatments that the experts have told it will fall short and will fail? I appeal to the Taoiseach to listen to the voice of this young woman and those of the other women whose lives have been devastated by the failure to provide them with the care they need here in Ireland.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: So many of them are now travelling. That is the most damning evidence of the Government's failure.