Results 12,501-12,520 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (8 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I fully appreciate that, and I am simply expressing a view on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Inquiry (8 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise two issues. First, in respect of the commission on NAMA and Project Eagle, I hear a kind of reticence in the Taoiseach's presentation that there is somehow a question mark over whether there will in fact be a commission. When we undertook our examination in the PAC, it was never understood or intended to be an alternative to the commission we had all agreed to and signed up...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (8 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of households currently in receipt of the housing assistance payment in each local authority area in tabular form; the average payment in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12286/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 194. To ask the Minister for Health when he envisages the medical lead on dual diagnosis to commence work, having been appointed six months ago. [12235/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (8 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that the full capacity protocol has been deployed at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in 2016. [12267/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 356. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to contracts in the hospitality sector in which an employee has to pay for a bill when a customer leaves without paying for it; the actions she has taken to prevent such contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12558/17]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is fair enough. Obviously, the argument in favour of a different location for the hospital is related but separate. It does not really concern us. I ask that we check with the health committee to ensure the expenditure to date, the projected expenditure, the estimates and the forecasts are absolutely, thoroughly and rigorously examined. The figures in the public domain indicate that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I entirely agree. Whatever way we do it, we need to make sure our piece of the work will be covered to ensure the issue will be rigorously examined because very large sums of public money are involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Exactly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Super.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with the Chairman. The staff of Console are being given the brush-off and are out of pocket. As they set out in the letter, they, like everyone else, have bills to pay and families to care for. They are in this position not least because of the failure of the Health Service Executive to monitor and control the section 39 agency in question, namely, Console. It is doubly...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We will probably have to be creative and persistent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is terrible to be asked to choose between the three issues referred to by the Chairman. The special report on the redress schemes is very important work, which is also highly topical given the turn of events around the Tuam mother and baby home and the need to re-examine the issue of mother and baby homes. Not only is this work very important, but it could also be very useful in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: May I ask-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The report is being published today and we will need to examine what it contains, but I am anxious that it not drift and that we will schedule it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We could reschedule.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: May I make a suggestion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will try to be helpful. Could we examine the report when it is published today?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Connolly is right to caution that we should not bite off more than we can chew. We can assess the report and determine whether it is possible to reschedule.