Results 10,721-10,740 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary school places currently available for children with autism in Dublin 15 for September 2016. [10860/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options and services available for children with autism who have been refused secondary school places in Dublin 15 for September 2016; and the accommodations his Department is making to ensure that they can access education in their locality. [10861/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his time frame to end pay inequality for teachers, given that these measures have been in place for five years. [10739/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the time frame for a review of pay inequality for teachers, given the proposed establishment of a public service pay commission. [10740/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 137. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the continued inequality in teachers' pay and for the delay in reviewing pay for teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10741/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 187. To ask the Minister for Health why he and the Health Service Executive did not send a representative to the International Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Symposium in New York in the United States of America especially given that 25 British delegates attended. [10906/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if he and the Health Service Executive intend to send a medical representative to the Baltimore, Maryland Conference in the United States of America in July 2016 where the findings of the Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Symposium will be formally delivered. [10907/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 189. To ask the Minister for Health why the Health Service Executive, via the TAS, advises applicants who suffer from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome that they are not eligible for cover to travel abroad for treatment on the basis that treatment is available in Ireland, given that the Executive has stated that following its patient consultation process in 2014 it compiled a submission which was part...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 190. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to update the eligible illnesses under the long term illness scheme, including adding Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. [10909/16]
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Over the last number of days the Tánaiste has been asked about the O'Higgins report and the legal direction given by the Garda Commissioner on behalf of an Garda Síochána to her legal representatives. On each occasion she has steadfastly refused to answer very straightforward questions to which the public interest demands answers. I noted that yesterday she indicated that the...
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I tell the Ceann Comhairle what I also understand, if I might put it to him this way. In her last response the Tánaiste indicated, as we know, that we will have a debate on the O'Higgins report next week.
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: She also said quite correctly that it is a very lengthy document, running to some 370 pages, and of course Members will wish to examine all matters in that report very thoroughly. In the meantime-----
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Bar this interruption, I would have completed what I had to say and put the question-----
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is relevant, Ceann Comhairle. I ask whether the Tánaiste, working on the assumption that she will put the questions to the Commissioner, will at least receive responses from the Commissioner-----
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I ask the Tánaiste to publish responses that she will get, one presumes, from the Garda Commissioner for the information of the Dáil Deputies in advance of the debate next week?
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: On a second matter, Ceann Comhairle, I ask the Tánaiste when it is proposed that the Minister for Education and Skills might come before the House-----
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to make a statement - timing is everything they say - on the very troubling brief that he has been given for his Department as he settles into his new role. Page 35 of that brief reflects the fact that the current reduced funding levels create a risk that some schools may not be able to cover critical costs such as insurance, heat and light. The brief continues, "the absence of which...
- Order of Business (19 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Could he be any more snide?