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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Murphy has on numerous occasions got to her feet and spoken of the policing issue in Kildare in precisely those terms, so I can vouch for that. It is all set out on her record. I think we are clear as to what is our remit. It is public money and decisions to allocate, spend and discharge public moneys and the associated processes and procedures around that. We are not proposing to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Members will agree it or amend it and then sign off on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: At risk of sounding like a broken record, we should address the fair deal scheme. I know there are many competing items and that we need to get through the work as set out and structured by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Other members have raised this and I think we are missing something. I do not have a concrete proposal to make except to ask if we might look again and see where we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have the HSE in to address many competing issues and I do not want to cut across any other issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can we think about it and come back to it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not want it to drag on.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (10 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 276. To ask the Minister for Health if the budget necessary to enable the HSE reimburse the drug translarna will be provided. [42963/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (10 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if he has sought an increased budget for the HSE drug group in 2018 to provide for the reimbursement of the drug translarna; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42964/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (10 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons in each catchment area of each Jigsaw youth mental health service respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42468/17]
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It provides an increase.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?
- Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Speaking here in the Chamber yesterday, the Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform told us that the budget 2018 announcements were a redoubling of efforts by the Government to rise to the challenges and respond to the risks of tomorrow. That is how he put it. If yesterday was good news, heaven protect us whenever there is bad news coming from the Government. Budget 2018...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (11 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in nine new district public health nurses being appointed to Dublin north west CHO area nine; when these nurses will be in situ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43098/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (11 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 131. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients attended to by the public health nurses in CHO area 9 by LHO area; the number of public health nurses in each; and the number of unfilled public health nurses positions and public health nurses on extended leave in these areas [43099/17]
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I also want to raise the way in which budget 2018 perpetuates the discrimination faced by many, but particularly by women, when it comes to the State pension. As has been said, 35,000 people have been left with a lesser pension payment than they would have received had they retired before 2012. As the Tánaiste knows, this is the result of...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: In our alternative budget, which is a balanced budget, Sinn Féin provides for the funding to reverse the 2012 changes, which so viciously discriminate against women. The Government could have made that choice too but it refused. It chose not to do right by the women affected. Doling out tea and sympathy does not cut it. Fine Gael is in government to bring forward solutions and...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Government seriously asking women to wait until 2020 for this matter to be resolved? That is bonkers, unbelievable and unacceptable. Every Member accepts the changes introduced in 2012 disproportionately affect and impoverish women. I have told the Tánaiste that almost 25% of women in receipt of a State pension are discriminated against to the tune of €30 a week. That...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The women affected campaigned on this issue before the budget. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil were aware of this issue before they signed off on the budget. The women in question have been led to believe there is unanimous support in the Dáil for the reversal of the 2012 changes, and that the Dáil understands and will end this discrimination against women. That is what needs to...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste was not asked that question.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Then the Government should reverse it.