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Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 109. To ask the Minister for Health if any and all chiropody and podiatry services from any qualified chiropodist or podiatrist, including those in private practice, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014 without the need for a general practitioner’s referral. [5108/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 110. To ask the Minister for Health if complementary therapies, including massage, reflexology, acupuncture, aroma therapy or hydrotherapy, once referred by a general practitioner, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014; if not, if in making this decision she has considered the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 111. To ask the Minister for Health if counselling, including psychological and psychotherapy services, from any professionally accredited counsellor will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries and their immediate relatives under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014, without restriction or limit on the number of sessions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 112. To ask the Minister for Health if comprehensive dental care, including access to private dentists not within the dental treatment services scheme available to medical card holders, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [5111/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 113. To ask the Minister for Health if, where necessary services are not available within the public health service, audiology services from private practitioners will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene Laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [5112/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 114. To ask the Minister for Health if dedicated liaison officers, such as those available to HAA cardholders to help obtain optimum home nursing and home support services, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [5113/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 115. To ask the Minister for Health if enhanced ophthalmic services provided to HAA cardholders, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014, or if these survivor will be restricted to those ophthalmic services already available to medical card holders. [5114/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 116. To ask the Minister for Health if private physiotherapy services will be made available to survivors of the Magdalene laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident In Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [5115/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (4 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 106. To ask the Minister for Health if the breaches outlined in the Health Service Executive internal audit of the Positive Action group were attributed to expenses incurred under the HAA cards in the possession of Hepatitis C survivors##. [5104/15]

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The homeless crisis continues to spiral out of control. Every day families with children and single people continue to present as homeless. Rising rents, increased repossessions and the lack of social housing are forcing scores of adults and hundreds of children out of their homes. Following the tragic death of Mr. Jonathan Corrie in December, the Government Press Office went into...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Two of the Tánaiste's remarks were very revealing in terms of the Government's attitude and approach to the housing and homelessness crisis. First, she said the Government would commits to doing more "should" additional capacity be required. Lest she and her colleagues in government are unaware, there is an absolute and urgent need for additional capacity. As I set out, this is...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government introduced the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act in 2013 which has led to a tenfold increase in the numbers of repossession cases lodged with the courts. The Government has failed to get the banks to meet their mortgage lending targets. It has failed to control the spiralling costs of rent because it will not introduce rent controls. It has failed to invest in appropriate...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, the budgets need to be given to the local authorities.

Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have asked the Tánaiste before about outstanding matters arising from the Constitutional Convention. She has indicated, as has the Taoiseach, that the Government does not intend to bring forward legislation, much less hold a referendum, on proposals agreed to by the Constitutional Convention on the position of women in the Constitution and the reference to women within the home. The...

Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Oh dear Jesus.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know about other members of the committee, but I was not aware that that had been the turn of events for the family subsequent to our meeting with its members in private session. Strictly speaking, it is not our job to get involved in the particularities of individual cases. That said, we had a lengthy discussion on the question of mediation and were led to believe by NAMA that...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (10 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are due to conclude our deliberations at 7.30 p.m. Will we be disposing of Report Stage at that point by means of a vote?

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (10 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Acting Chairman for his guidance.I am very disappointed by the fact that the Minister did not move to amend the legislation in the appropriate fashion in order to ensure that it is fully consistent with and faithfully reflects the scheme put forward in the Quirke report. We all know that Mr. Justice John Quirke proposed an ex gratiascheme, meaning that the women are asked to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (10 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the specific supports available to unemployed taxi drivers who wish to return to the taxi industry. [6088/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (10 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 470. To ask the Minister for Health the status of equipping a nursing home (details supplied) in Dublin 7 that is currently closed; and the date it will be re-opened. [6059/15]