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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the number of Cabinet committee meetings he has attended since June 2018. [43709/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not sure at which committee the idea was floated by the Minister of State, Deputy D’Arcy, that the Government would consider a referendum to override judicial discretion in the awarding of compensation claims if judges do not reduce injury payouts over the next two years. The cost of insurance working group, which the same Minister of State chairs, published its seventh progress...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has that just broken now?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Should we not invite the Taoiseach to say something on Brexit and how we will be briefed?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (13 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcomes from the recent meeting of the interdepartmental committee to examine the way in which existing State services can best meet the residential institutions survivors into the future; and the publication date agreed by the committee for its final report. [47133/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (13 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when primary legislation will be introduced in order to extend the medical card and other health-related supports to the surviving women of the Magdalen laundries who have previously been excluded from the redress scheme due to the fact that they were recorded as being admitted to a different institution closely associated...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (13 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the benefits and entitlements that his Department will now provide to the surviving women of the Magdalen laundries who have previously been excluded from the redress scheme due to the fact that they were recorded as being admitted to a different institution that was closely associated with their respective laundries within...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 410. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 will receive an appointment to see an orthopaedic surgeon in St. James's Hospital. [46963/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Reform Programme (14 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the National Reform Programme 2018. [43710/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (14 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in developing a single Government visual identity. [45086/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Sector Reform Implementation (14 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the public sector reform measures under way in his Department. [45087/18]

Dublin (North Inner City) Development Authority Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Deputy Lahart for introducing the legislation. It recognises the decades of social and economic neglect the north inner city of Dublin has endured. Fianna Fáil is no doubt acutely aware of successive Governments' failure to deliver the political and policy decisions necessary to tackle the embedded inequalities in this part of our city. The Deputy’s party leader was a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I see arriving into the Gallery some of the Stardust families who have handed in a petition today. I extend a very warm welcome to them and wish them the very best in their campaign to reopen the inquest into that fire on St. Valentine's Day 1981. Tá fáilte romhaibh. At the weekend, to rapturous applause, the Taoiseach made the bold claim that he would, if re-elected, deliver...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----intangible assets, would have raised €750 million.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: When it comes to priorities, it is obvious where the Government stands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ordinary workers fall to the bottom of the pile yet again.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach instruct Revenue to scrap this move without delay?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 14 November, I think it was, I was in Sligo Grammar School at a remembrance service which was absolutely wonderful and inclusive.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Indeed, all of the party leaders had been invited but I went and I paid my respects there. This is the list of the categories of workers to which this flat-rate expenses scheme applies. It includes people such as panel beaters, kitchen porters, nurses and members of the Defence Forces, whom we all know are appallingly paid at the lower ranks in any event. The Taoiseach wants to create for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, Deputy Pearse Doherty advises me that the Taoiseach's response indicated that none of this kicks in until 2020. In the answer Deputy Doherty received, he was advised that it takes effect from 1 January 2019. The date is looming. I ask the Taoiseach again. Notwithstanding his jibes against me, will he, for once, empathise-----