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Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Over the past year there have been two landmark cases concerning the freedom of information legislation that fundamentally impact on its principles and will, potentially, have far-reaching consequences. I refer to the cases involving University College Cork, UCC, and Enet. These cases are undermining what should be the starting point for freedom of information and that is a presumption in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: In late 2015 and early 2016, three whistleblowers made protected disclosures to the Department of Defence outlining concerns on a lack of training and protection from the chemicals used in Casement Aerodrome at Baldonnel. Informal research by one of the whistleblowers raised questions over a number of deaths of former Air Corps personnel with 73 deaths occurring amongst former personnel aged...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Generally it is just three questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: That next group is very long.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. In that case, can I ask another supplementary question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I believe the Taoiseach is unintentionally brushing me off slightly with the response he gave. I am looking at a question that was put to the Taoiseach by my colleague, Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh, for a written response on 22 February 2018. The Taoiseach responded as the line Minister, where he set out that he had appointed an independent third party to review the allegations made. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda divisions in which a protective services unit has been established to date; the Garda divisions in which a protective services unit is due to be established by the end of quarter 4 of 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29333/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the buildings, office equipment, cars, technology and trained Garda personnel are in place for each of the divisional protection services units established to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29334/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Data (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 692. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adoption tracing inquiries received by Tusla in the past 12 months by domestic and intercountry adoptions in tabular form. [29465/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Data (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 693. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adoption information inquiries, including GDPR or subject access requests, received by Tusla in the past 12 months by domestic and intercountry adoptions in tabular form. [29466/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Gender Proofing of Policies (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 695. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the national childcare scheme has been gender proofed. [29598/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 761. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Christmas bonus will be available in 2019. [29279/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: As we meet here this afternoon, farmers are at the gates protesting against the trade deal agreed between the European Union and Mercosur countries just over a week ago. All of the main farming organisations across the island are utterly opposed to the deal and for very good reason. The Mercosur deal represents a sell-out of Irish farmers and their families. It is devastating news for the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach will not convince any sensible person, and certainly not any farmer, that he is protecting his or her interests in any shape, make or form by allowing our market to be flooded with South American beef. It makes no sense. Nobody believes the Taoiseach when he gives us this line that he is conscious of the needs of the rural economy and farming families, when out of the other...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I can only assume Fianna Fáil proposes to support Sinn Féin's motion later this afternoon to stop the deal.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am very glad to hear it, given that the mandate for the deal emanated from Fianna Fáil 20 years ago.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to ask the Taoiseach about Brexit. The Tánaiste has described a hard Brexit as an ugly outcome and he is right. We are all very well aware of the potential catastrophe that could visit our island in such a scenario. We all agree that we cannot countenance an economic border on the island, that there can be no hardening of the Border and that the Good Friday Agreement must be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, that was not an answer but a studied evasion.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked how, in the event that there is a crash, the Government would attain the shared objectives of there being no economic border, no hard border and no damage to the Good Friday Agreement, but we heard no straight answer.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (10 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meeting of the European Council held on 20 and 21 June 2019. [27551/19]