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Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (14 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Give over.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (14 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 230. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why a family (details supplied) in Dublin 22 is at risk of losing the family home, given that, as former local authority tenants, its members wish to purchase the home from the local authority to prevent them from becoming homeless; why they have been told that his Department will not allow the purchase of the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will extend the remit of the Ombudsman to include all companies in public ownership. [2081/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to the extension of the remit of the Ombudsman to include all companies in public ownership. The company I have in mind is Irish Water. As the Minister is aware, the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, has raised important concerns and expressed criticism in asking why the Government has declined to allow his office to investigate complaints made against Irish Water. He has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister for his response. In his supplementary reply, he might address the issue of Irish Water. He knows, of course, that my party's proposal is to abolish water charges and bring an end to the monster quango that is Irish Water. Even by the Minister's own reckoning, the current situation leaves people in an impossible position. Essentially, people with complaints in respect...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Minister knows, the commission will only examine complaints after customers have fully exhausted Irish Water's own complaint resolution processes. I do not know if people have spoken to the Minister on this subject but they have certainly approached me. It is a most unsatisfactory route for having a complaint dealt with. I am sure the Minister has also noted the Ombudsman's comments...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Ombudsman-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Value for Money Reviews (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: My children are still in a prefab.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Value for Money Reviews (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: My children finished school five minutes ago in Cabra and they are in a school prefab. Is it planned to alter that? That school has been in prefab accommodation for 20 years: imagine that. Is that not shocking?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his discussions with the Department of Health regarding expenditure on health. [2082/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to health. Nowhere is the chaos of the Government more evident than in accident and emergency and the burgeoning waiting lists. I would like the Minister to place on the record of the Dáil the discussions he has had with the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, in respect of health expenditure.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, that is pretty spectacular too.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not take any comfort, nor I am sure does anyone, from the fact there is a Cabinet sub-committee on health, that the Government has an official group on health, that the Minister is discussing budgetary matters daily with the Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, and yet we have the mess and the misery that reigns in our hospitals. The Minister commended himself on his increase in funding to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no pretence about the fact - it is not a good record for the Government - that there are 68,000 people waiting for inpatient treatments, 400,000 people waiting for outpatient appointments and under-staffing right across the system. My local hospital, the Mater hospital, is at least 100 nursing staff short of what is required. If the Minister is trying to put a gloss on this that he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need to spend more on health.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hospital trolleys are not value for money.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government hammered the front line.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is lying.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Expenditure (19 Jan 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister wants to leave elderly people on trolleys and people on waiting lists.