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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 271. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of needs will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4798/17]
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The result of a ballot of members of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, ASTI, is expected to be announced today. The ballot was held because of major issues surrounding teachers' pay as well as issues surrounding supervision and substitution duties. Despite some minor concessions on the Government's part, the deal put to teachers remains largely the same as that proposed...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste's response, while not unexpected, is nonetheless alarming and I am sure it will cause alarm among teachers, students and parents alike. The alarm resides in the following simple matter. Why can no Government Minister commit, as a matter of principle, to equal pay for equal work? That is what this issue boils down to. Nobody expects pay restoration to happen overnight and...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question concerned the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should answer the question, which was on equal pay for work of equal value.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Government not believe in pay equality?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is a terrible answer. In 2015 the Government agreed to take the case of the hooded men back to the European Court of Human Rights. That was the right decision. Last night Channel 4 revealed that papers uncovered by the Pat Finucane Centre in Derry exposed at least four known cases of waterboarding by the British army and RUC. The Tánaiste is aware that waterboarding is an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who took the decision to move the staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I absolutely agree with Deputy Connolly. The Chairman ought to challenge that decision. We all appreciate the staff can only do what they have the resources to do. That is taken absolutely. I now have a sense that there is messing going on and I am not speaking about the staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not referring to you, a Chathaoirligh. There is political messing happening on this issue. We have been stalled in completing our work not least because of a staffing issue on the one hand, as it now emerges. On the other hand the political system, in the form of the Government, is saying that it is stalling the ball on a commission it had already committed to on the basis that it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a runner at this stage. It potentially brings this committee into disrepute. We are being treated like patsies. I am certainly not prepared to be part of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 100%
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise one issue. There has been a ruling in the courts relating to an action taken by a previous witness to this committee. This committee was vindicated. There was a lot of talk at the time that the action was initiated against this committee and indeed, against the State, about the remit of the committee, the conduct of its members and so on. It would be useful to get a report...
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I think such a debate is necessary. I understand that this matter will be discussed during Topical Issues. In light of the depth of the crisis in the health service, I have absolutely no doubt that Members will wish to have an opportunity to contribute to that debate. It struck me during Leaders' Questions, as I listened to figures and statistics rolling so easily off the Taoiseach's...
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the last Dáil, I raised the specific issue of children with scoliosis on the Order of Business on several occasions.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Promises were made, but they meant nothing. I join Deputy Martin in insisting on a debate.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We need to get answers this time.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We passed a joint motion on it.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Dáil has spoken.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.