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Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá mo chuid smaointe inniu leo siúd a chaith am i dtithe na máthar agus na leanaí. Inniu, cuimhnímid orthu go léir. Is córas drochíde agus díghrádaithe a bhí ann. Tá an Taoiseach tar éis leithscéal a ghabháil ar son an Stát, ach tá na chéad chéimeanna eile ríthábhachtach. Yesterday...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (13 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the refurbishment of the General Post Office, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 will commence; and the intended use of the refurbished space on completion of the works to be overseen by the Office of Public Works. [1343/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I extend my thoughts and sympathies to the families of the 93 people whose deaths from Covid-19 were reported yesterday and to all those who have been bereaved in the course of this pandemic. We are living through what are difficult times for many families. The Government has abandoned plans to reopen special education schools and facilities this week. The Minister for Education, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: These children and their parents do not have the luxury of time. What we need now is a real, concrete and deliverable solution.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach very well knows, holding the Government to account is not playing politics. I point to the irony of a Government that itself has played politics and rushed very quickly to point fingers at SNAs, teachers and anyone bar itself for this fiasco. There is a shared objective for special education to function. The Minister says that she is committed to that, but she has twice...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is worse is that after the fact, there was an attempt to lay the blame, scapegoat and be incredibly divisive among the special education community.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not good government. Is the Taoiseach telling the Dáil that he is reassured that the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, can deliver an agreed return to school and services-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and that it can be done in the short term with the agreement and the necessary, reasonable assurances that SNAs and teachers are looking for and rightly deserve?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raise the decision taken by the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, and the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, as party leaders, to award a pay increase of €81,000 to the incoming Secretary General of the Department of Health. How on earth does the Taoiseach regard that as appropriate at a time when so many people's incomes have collapsed, when the Government is taxing pandemic unemployment...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do not mention that issue, it is not going to improve anyone's mood.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: It speaks to waste.

EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Motion (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after “of a no deal scenario”: “notes that: — the outcome of the Brexit trade deal amounts to a 15 per cent overall cut to the quota of Irish fishers and a much higher percentage cut for some quota species; and — the proposed compensatory financial assistance on offer is nowhere near the levels of...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: By now most of us have had the opportunity to read and digest the commission's report into the brutal and shameful operation of mother and baby homes in this State. More importantly, the survivors themselves and their advocates have had that opportunity. The publication of this report ought to have been a moment that brought recognition, some relief and some comfort to survivors, who are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Monuments (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to the decision of An Post as the holder of the title to the General Post Office, Dublin 1, to move its corporate headquarters to another location later in 2021, when the planned refurbishment of the building will commence; and if efforts will be made to locate the missing flagstones on which Pearse stood...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for requiring a public services card to renew a driver licence online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2838/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provisions in place for persons under 70 years of age who do not have public services cards seeking to renew their driver licences online; if he will consider putting in place a postal service option owing to the public health restrictions in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2837/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Forms (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Revenue Commissioners have refused from 1 January 2021 to issue companies registered in Ireland with A1s for their posted worker employees with Northern Ireland addresses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2763/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Forms (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the legislative or policy basis on which the Revenue Commissioners will no longer provide A1s to posted workers with a Northern Ireland address working for an Irish company. [2764/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 616. To ask the Minister for Health the position persons with disabilities are placed in the scheduled roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccination programme. [2702/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to include baby and nursery shops in the list of essential retail, given the fact that many expectant parents and new parents are not in a position to order the necessary goods online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3458/21]