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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to set out the number of staff in the policy and programme implementation unit of his Department. [15759/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I applaud the Taoiseach's commitment to coherence and openness across the Government. However, I would caution that too many cooks can spoil the broth, as they say. It strikes me that this is a most irregular arrangement. Not alone will the Tánaiste have an office within the Department of An Taoiseach, but we will now have an office of the leader of the Green Party within the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I seek clarity on that point. The Tánaiste having, in addition to his departmental advisers, five or six additional advisers in order that he can fulfil his duties as Tánaiste strikes me as absolutely extraordinary. For the leader of the Green Party to have four or five additional advisers, as the Taoiseach said, is similarly extraordinary. Nobody is against bringing expertise to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is reaching.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Growth (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a high-level review of the economy to be led by his Department. [15760/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Growth (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach might set out for us the arrangements for chairing each of the Cabinet committees. If I understand it correctly, there will be a rotation between the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the leader of the Green Party. Will the Taoiseach set that out, and the basis upon which these committees were allocated to each of them? I refer to the high-level review of the economy. This...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Growth (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: If I have heard the Taoiseach correctly, he will have housing, health, education, Europe, Brexit and the North, the Green Party will have environment and climate change, social affairs and equality, and the Tánaiste and Fine Gael have economic recovery and investment.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Growth (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I mean by way of chairing. We are discussing the Chairs of the committee. That is implicit. That is a strange tripartite division of labour. It seems that Fine Gael will have its fingerprints all over the economic strategy and approach of this Government. That is not something I welcome. That certainly is not something that working people across this State will welcome because they...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Growth (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was the Government co-ordination committee convened to deal with the issues regarding the Minister, Deputy Cowen? Is that the mechanism the Taoiseach uses to brief his partners in Government on all of the serious issues arising, including the contested Garda PULSE records that suggest the Minister sought to evade a Garda checkpoint? The Taoiseach has said the co-ordination committee...

Maternity Leave Benefit Extension: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I commend Deputy Kerrane for bringing forward this important motion at this time. On 11 June, the National Women's Council of Ireland, NWCI, submitted a petition signed by more than 28,000 people to the then Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, calling for an extension of 12 weeks to maternity leave and pay. He said he would give full and meaningful consideration to this request. However, after...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 75. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when live music in venues will recommence; the guidelines that will apply to musicians and venues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15240/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the guidelines for schools on their use of reduced hours for individual pupils will be completed; and if she plans to put in place a reporting and effective monitoring mechanism within the guidelines to ensure appropriate and limited use of reduced hours in schools and the necessary oversight at departmental level. [15725/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 757. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons due arrears of the pandemic unemployment payment; when these arrears payments will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15426/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Functions (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 857. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs which Department will have responsibility for youth affairs. [15724/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Functions (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 873. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the revised organisational chart for his Department will be provided. [15720/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1282. To ask the Minister for Health if a participative consultation process will be undertaken with those most likely to be impacted by the guidance of his Department on prioritisation in access to critical care in the context of Covid-19, which explicitly engages human rights and equality expertise as recommended by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. [15923/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1283. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made regarding day services for persons with disabilities further to the publication of a HSE document, entitled the Framework for the Resumption of Adult Disability Day Services; the way in which and when day services for persons with disabilities will open under the framework; the transport solutions that will be provided for persons...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1284. To ask the Minister for Health the dates on which the Traveller health advisory committee met between 2010 and 2020 inclusive in tabular form; the date on which it will next meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15925/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raise the issue of the sacking of the former Minister, Deputy Cowen. Many were left scratching their heads as to what changed between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. yesterday. The Taoiseach moved very swiftly from fully backing his man to sacking him. People wonder whether the Taoiseach learned something new and whether there is another twist in the tale or another piece of information. The truth,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have the record of what the Taoiseach said yesterday. He made clear that he was fully aware of all aspects of the story regarding Deputy Cowen from the beginning. That is not an assertion of mine; it has been clarified by the Taoiseach. He said: I spoke to the Minister, Deputy Cowen, the weekend before last and he adamantly denied any suggestion or implication that he would have evaded...