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- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, is due to publish the heads of the health information and patient safety Bill today. Is this the same proposal that was announced by the then Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, in March 2014 and included in the HSE service plan of that year?
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister, Deputy Reilly, failed to honour this commitment, unfortunately, and the continued under-funding of the health system has further reduced patient safety. Can the Tánaiste tell the House whether the full Bill will be published before the election? Is this just another piece of pre-election bluster? Is it not "what you tend to do during an election", as Deputy Rabbitte...
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: When might that appointment be announced?
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Tánaiste confirm that the current Attorney General is not being considered for that post?
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Finally, the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, CPP, has, in its abundant wisdom, decided that changes in security are necessary to protect us feeble Deputies on foot of an exchange that happened last week. I want to put on the record my absolute disgust and the disgust of Sinn Féin at the absolute overreaction of the Ceann Comhairle, CPP and all concerned to what was a very, very...
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: We could do better-----
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: If the hectoring could stop, from the benches opposite-----
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is the people's Parliament and particularly in the context of that exchange, Members ought to be more concerned at the substandard and subhuman conditions in which many Traveller citizens live and more cognisant of the fact-----
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----that ten of our citizens lost their lives-----
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Ten citizens lost their lives-----
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----in the most appalling of circumstances. What is the response of this Dáil, the people's Parliament? It is to vote down a perfectly reasonable and honourable motion.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Better than that, for Members of this Dáil to get precious about themselves, precious because they were held to account, albeit in strongly worded language-----
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let me tell the Deputies, that is bread and butter in the city that I come from-----
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and I want to express our disgust at CPP and the Ceann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----for making a mountain out of a mole hill and for behaving in this fashion.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It has been delayed. It was announced in March 2014.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The crude thing was to bring the matter to CPP. That is what happened.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Programme Status (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has agreed to re-open the national swimming programme; and if so, when it will open; and the total allocation. [39830/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It strikes me that there are two issues here. Everyone acknowledges the sensitivity and the caution which applies in making any comment on or criticising the Judiciary or anyone on the Bench. The actual issue Deputy Deasy raises is the concern over an instruction given to a senior official to apologise for a view which he expressed. If this committee sends a general letter it will, with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: If I may, I wish raise one matter of which I have made the clerk aware. Mr. Douglas Fannin has been in touch with me again in respect of the special investigations unit of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. He is extremely anxious that his case and the issues arising receive proper scrutiny and examination. I wanted to raise this again with the committee and ask for...