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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 698: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been told by the Health Service Executive in Swords, County Dublin, that they must wait 14 to 16 months for an appointment with a speech and language therapist appointment and 12 months for a hearing test for their three and half year old child; his views on such lengthy waiting times for a public patient...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (14 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 743: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an organisational chart detailing officials and their responsibilities within his Department. [7747/12]

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: During this debate it has become clear that the Government is completely disconnected from the realities that face low and middle-income families or perhaps it is uninterested. Week after week - we have heard it again this evening - the lament comes from the Government benches. They cry crocodile tears about the lot they inherited when they entered into Government. They ring their hands...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (15 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health if he will make a statement on the survey carried out by the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, which suggests that more than half of registrar posts remain unfilled in eight of the country's emergency departments. [8340/12]

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (15 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full list of the allowances and payments referred to in a Circular 003/2012 and corresponding amounts in tabular form. [8553/12]

Written Answers — Fire Services: Fire Services (15 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 209: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the sectors from within the public service that Dublin City Council intends to fill fire-fighter vacancies through redeployment; and the oversight measures that he has put in place to ensure that such redeployments will not compromise the heath and safety of citizens in need of the Dublin fire brigade...

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise with the Tánaiste the plight of the residents of Priory Hall. More than 250 residents are in temporary accommodation since they were evacuated by a court order on 14 October 2011, well over 100 days ago. Is the Tánaiste aware that, despite the fact the evacuated residents have been out of their homes for several months, his colleague, the Minister for the Environment,...

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----lax planning, building and fire safety regulations and enforcement.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Priory Hall evacuees were failed by the State on all these grounds.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Tánaiste recall that the reason the residents were evacuated was because Priory Hall did not comply with fire safety and was a danger to their lives? This week marks the 31st anniversary of the Stardust tragedy which should be a constant reminder to all of the terrible consequences of neglect of fire safety.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government take the Priority Hall matter in hand? Will the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, meet with the residents? Will he help to co-ordinate the search for a solution involving all concerned - the Minister himself, the residents, Dublin City Council and the banks?

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should know dodging answering questions with the kind of inaccurate waffle he delivered at the beginning of his response is unedifying.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a bit ironic that the man who lectures on respectability comes from an outfit that was very close to North Korea and was quite adept at running off dodgy fivers.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste might remember his own past too.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste did not answer the question as to why the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, refuses to meet with the Priory Hall residents.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste claims there is a priority and an urgency around making these homes safe, with which I agree. However, there is no signal of urgency on the part of the Government. This contrasts sharply with the urgency with which it moved a statutory instrument to award over €17,000 extra to the Minister of State for housing and planning, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, for the glory of her...

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, meet with the residents concerned? What proactive strategy has the Government to address the issues at hand? Much as with the previous question on waste management in Dublin city, it is not acceptable for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, to take two steps...

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: As a result of no regulation.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: And neither will we.