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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: I am well conversant with the courts system. The Garda Commissioner is deliberately not answering my question. It is either the case that Assistant Commissioner Barry O'Brien is reviewing everything, including the grave matter of public concern around potential perjury or misleading of the court, which could not be more serious, or he is not investigating this matter and is simply looking...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: This is filibustering and it is unacceptable.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Is Assistant Commissioner Barry O'Brien examining the allegation, worry and public concern that officers of An Garda Síochána gave misleading or false evidence to a court of law? That is a "Yes" or "No" question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes or no.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: That is not what I asked the Commissioner. It is most disrespectful to me and the committee to deliberately not answer a question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Does the review include the very serious suggestion regarding the disposition of some of the Commissioner's officers in a court of law? Is Assistant Commissioner O'Brien examining that piece of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Is Assistant Commissioner O'Brien investigating the matter that I put to the Commissioner? It is a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: I will take that answer as a "No".
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody is inviting him to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: That is exactly the kind of remark that damages public confidence in the organisation the Commissioner heads.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: It is the kind of filibustering and evasion that damages the Garda.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: That is fine but surely to goodness the Commissioner, of all people, should have a concern.
- Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I commend Deputy Browne and welcome this legislation. Sinn Féin supports the amendment as moved by the Minister of State and I join in congratulating him on his appointment to what is a very challenging and important brief. I have no doubt but that he will go at it with considerable vigour and will bring much positivity to the role. Progress in mental health reform has been...
- Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Neville is jealous.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (26 Jul 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date by which the construction of a permanent school building for schools (details supplied) will commence; the date by which the temporary accommodation for two of the schools' classes will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35594/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (26 Jul 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mandatory training that both primary and post-primary teachers must complete with regard to mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35704/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (26 Jul 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the voluntary or extracurricular training his Department provides to primary and post-primary teachers with regard to mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35705/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidelines on Mental Health (26 Jul 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the resources schools receive to adhere to the well-being guidelines for both primary and post-primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35706/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Jul 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 725. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting initial assessment to be placed on a waiting list for cataract surgery in the Mater hospital; the length of time they have been waiting, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35192/17]