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Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have done it now.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Payments (16 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 215. To ask the Minister for Health why the National Treatment Purchase Fund has reduced funding to a care home (details supplied); and if he is aware that the care home is passing this cost on to its residents. [16474/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (21 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to tackle the extraordinary hike in car insurance premiums following the Private Members' business motion on this issue last week. [17002/16]

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also wish to acknowledge the boys in green and to congratulate them and the management on their historic victory. I also wish to recognise the fans, the girls and boys in green on the terraces. Is it not something that two Irish teams have now qualified for the final 16? Let us imagine what we will achieve when we have a single Irish soccer team.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have no doubt that we will run rings around them all and win all around us.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the issue of homelessness with the Tánaiste by telling her about Áine. She is an 18-year-old young woman and on Tuesday of this week, she presented as homeless to her local council, together with her partner and their four-month-old infant daughter. The council refused to accept she genuinely was in need of emergency accommodation and she was turned away. At 4.30...

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: What I know is that last month almost 4,000 people across the State were in emergency accommodation. I know and the Tánaiste knows that this includes more than 1,000 families and more than 2,000 children. What we now know is that we have a crisis in the crisis management of homelessness. It is not simply that families are in emergency accommodation, which is scandalous in itself, but...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (23 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask about the misuse of drugs (amendment) (No. 2) Bill, which provides for the establishment of supervised injection facilities. Will the Tánaiste give a precise timeline on when we will deal with the legislation? The heads were approved in January 2015 and there is a fear and suspicion that there is an undue delay in dealing with the issue. Could we have reassurance today that the...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: It would be wrong to consider Brexit in isolation from the broad political context of a very aggressive pursuit of the European integration project over past decades. Dissatisfaction and disaffection with the European Union is not a new phenomenon nor is it a uniquely British or English phenomenon. The rejection of EU treaties by those of us who have a vote in referendums in the cases of...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am very calm about these matters, but I am also very determined that the Minister will not walk away from, wimp out on or equivocate on something that is clearly in the national interest. I am an Irish republican. My view is, and will always be, that the partition of our country has not served us well. We will be truly stronger together. In this turn of events and with this political...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, we had statements on last Friday's vote by Britain to leave the European Union. The Taoiseach, during a lengthy contribution, said he regretted that decision and hoped the gains of the past two decades with regard to North-South co-operation were fully protected. While I welcome his comments in this regard, at no point in his contribution did he acknowledge that the North had...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Good Friday Agreement to which the Tánaiste refers revolves around a concept of consent which has not been uncontroversial in Irish politics and history. I put it to the Tánaiste that it is not sufficient for her blithely to say she respects the vote of the UK. I have asked her to recognise and respect the vote of the people of the North of Ireland who, by a majority, voted to...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Say it then.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to ask about the citizens' assembly that is envisaged. I understand that, in the first instance, it will deal with the eighth amendment. Many of us wonder about the fact that yet another mechanism has been produced for more debate but also a further delay in dealing with what is a very urgent issue. Why are elected representatives excluded from the assembly? Will the Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the importance he places on pupils being taught about national and international events of an historic and significant nature and if he will consider assigning History as a compulsory subject at junior certificate level. [18409/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Rates (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the recent changes in van tax which appear to have made it more expensive for van users, particularly those who are not self-employed. [18412/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal Charges (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 217. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a private waste company (details supplied) is subject to the current negotiations with the Government around the increase of charges; the action he will take against those companies which have increased their service charge as a means of passing additional charges onto their customers, given the 12 month suspension of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (29 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 33. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will broaden the expert commission on water services' terms of reference as the current terms are too narrow and should include issues such as how best to avoid water poverty, how to increase water conservation through investment in green technologies and how to ensure that water and sanitation services are kept in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in a person (details supplied) receiving an appointment for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18591/16]

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week the RTE "Prime Time" programme did a great public service in setting out a tale of truly outlandish spending by the charity Console on the part of its founder and his family. The story is amazing but not unique. Sadly, we have been down this road previously with other charitable entities. The programme told a story of irregularities in finances, of altering accounts, and of how...