Results 16,661-16,680 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (21 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the vehicle of a person (details supplied) was scheduled for a reinspection at Northpoint Business Park Centre, Naul Road, Ballymun, Swords, County Dublin, following a test which identified minor defects must undergo a full NCT test. [16920/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (21 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Northpoint Business Park NCT Centre, Naul Road, Ballymun, Swords, County Dublin, did not include in a text sent to persons whose vehicles were due to undergo tests that payment by cash and by cheque would not be accepted. [16921/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Cabinet Committees (21 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 337. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Cabinet committee which addresses matters relating to Israel and Palestine. [16815/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Convalescent Centres (21 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 678. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the appointment of a provisional liquidator to a convalescent centre (details supplied); if the staff whilst not public servants whose salaries have been funded by the HSE will be redeployed; and the way in which he plans to replace the lost convalescent and respite care beds within the health system following the closure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (21 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 745. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to additional personal protective equipment-related charges being applied by dentists to medical card holders when attending appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17246/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach his Government’s handling of the issue of international travel. There is absolute public confusion and a lack of public confidence in the Government’s whole approach which has been marked as cack-handed and, frankly, operating on a wing and a prayer. Yesterday the Taoiseach was at odds with the Tánaiste, and the confusion between the two...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I hope that the Tánaiste desists from the type of sniping that the Taoiseach has described. We need an all-island approach, and I hope that the North-South Ministerial Council meeting next week will provide an opportunity for Dublin to step forward, stop being passive, and to champion that very approach. Our position is well known within the five party Executive, which is that we need...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government have an intervention for those families?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is about the right people quarantining.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should be accurate.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach about the HIQA report into nursing homes which contained some very damning observations. It is absolutely apparent that nursing homes did not conform to any satisfactory level of clinical governance and were left without the human and practical resources necessary to protect residents and staff. We know how all of this ended. It ended with many people losing their lives...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We must do the work now and throughout August to ensure this committee can speedily work in order we learn the lessons and the families affected have some platform for their real experiences to be recorded and responded to.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the First Minister and deputy First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly. [16816/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for the answer. It is a very welcome development that the North-South Ministerial Council will meet next week. I hope the value of the forum is now widely understood. It is true to say the North-South Ministerial Council and the all-Ireland infrastructure has been neglected for quite some time. I hope the Taoiseach's engagement with the institutions in the North and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course that ought to be the case. It is no great surprise that Sinn Féin and I are very much seeking to advance the case of an all-Ireland approach. I hope the Taoiseach will take my comment in the spirit in which it is intended because this is a constructive observation. The Taoiseach cannot on one hand look to the North and say we can see what it has done because Britain has a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is a disaster.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I remember.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department with the National Economic and Social Council. [16817/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The National Economic and Social Council, NESC, published a paper last month on the implications of Covid-19 for housing in Ireland. The paper argues that the crisis demonstrates the capacity of Government to take swift and decisive action. It adds that the introduction of legislation to ban evictions and rent increases and in securing additional accommodation for homeless households is the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is no secret that the Taoiseach has been hostile to the idea of rent freezes and bans on evictions. During the election campaign he cited legal advice saying that a rent freeze would not be possible. We all know that this turned out not to be the case. Leaving that aside, I asked the Taoiseach if the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government would agree to briefing Opposition...