Results 7,161-7,180 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (27 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 899. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 attending Crumlin Childrens Hospital will receive the required physiotherapy treatment; and if the hospital will consider increasing this patient's visits with the consultant from once a year to twice a year [23066/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (27 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 900. To ask the Minister for Health the reason chronic regional pain syndrome is not classified as a chronic physical disability in Ireland when it holds such a classification in the UK; his plans to classify it as such in the future [23067/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Issues (27 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 901. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Numbers 1074, 1075 and 1076 of 25 March 2014, when he expects the Health Service Executive will issue a reply. [23069/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (27 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 902. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 is not receiving PRS ablation treatment for chronic neuropathic pain as frequently as required; when this person will be given a date for spinal cord simulator treatment; and if they will be considered for inclusion under the treatment abroad scheme for deep brain simulator treatment. [23070/14]

Return to Writ: Longford-Westmeath - Introduction of New Member (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ba mhaith liom freisin, ar son Shinn Féin, fáilte mór a chur roimh an Teachta McFadden. I have no doubt that Deputy McFadden's victory in the by-election was a bittersweet one for her and her family. On behalf of Sinn Féin, I extend the warmest of welcomes to her and join in the sentiments expressed in relation to her late sister, Nicky, who was genuinely regarded,...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: On Friday the people sent the Taoiseach and his Government a clear message. They clearly rejected the policies of the Government and said it had no mandate to inflict the misery it had been inflicting on families or the damage it had been causing to society. They have now told the Government to end its brutal agenda of relentless austerity, reverse its policy of taking medical cards from...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not right.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know how to break it to the Taoiseach, but he is not regarded as competent. He should have seen this; did he not follow the election results? He is not regarded as competent; neither is he regarded as being fair. He talks about others subjecting people to penury, but that is precisely what he has done. There is no public support for taking discretionary medical cards from very...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is clear from the Taoiseach's response that there will be no renegotiation of the programme for Government. Did the Labour Party hear this?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Taoiseach tell the Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, this?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Taoiseach told the Labour Party this? It seems there will be no change in the scale of the cutbacks envisaged in the next budget. Does the Labour Party know this? It seems that far from listening to the people and hearing the message, there is a frantic effort to rearrange the deckchairs on Titanic, to change the face or voice at the microphone and to continue on regardless. That...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is to be no change to the programme for Government or the scale of the cutbacks. Let me put this question to the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach at least give back the medical card to Katie Connolly, a young child with Down's syndrome-----

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and to Alex Boyle, a young disabled child?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach at least do that if he has heard the voices of the people?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government should sort it out.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: When?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have done it for a generation of people. Is the Taoiseach blind?

Order of Business (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I take it the Taoiseach is not seeking just to tweak the process and that discretionary medical cards will be reinstated for those who possessed them previously.

Order of Business (28 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is an important issue and the Taoiseach raised it. On previous occasions I have raised the matter of the Cooke report and inquired as to when it will be delivered to the Taoiseach. We have received different responses from various members of Government in respect of this report. We were originally informed that it was imminent and then that this was not the case. Is the Taoiseach in a...