Results 17,701-17,720 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the vaccine roll-out group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [25952/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are nearly a week into the cyberattack on the HSE and the Department of Health. We are told it will take weeks to resolve this matter. Obviously, the operational capacity of the entire system has been completely undermined and patients will suffer as a result. The picture emerging from our public health system in respect of its IT capacities and technology is not a good one. Speaking...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The legal framework to protect the State's investment and ensure the national maternity hospital remains in State ownership has still not been completed. Eighteen months ago, the Tánaiste told us the details of this transfer would be finalised in a matter of weeks. Yet significant questions remain unanswered in terms of the make-up and mission of the new hospital. None of this has...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: “All entirely innocent of any wrongdoing” - these were the words of the coroner last Tuesday confirming what so many had known for 50 years, that the ten people shot dead in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, by the parachute regiment in 1971 were all innocent civilians, all victims of British state murder, all ordinary people living their lives, all people with hopes and dreams for the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disadvantaged Status (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 605. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will introduce a DEIS-type model for early learning centre settings to narrow the gap for disadvantaged children as committed to in the whole-of-Government Strategy for Babies, Young Children and their Families 2019-2028. [26479/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government had two options last night - to propose a meaningful plan to stop cuckoo funds snapping up family homes and pushing ordinary home buyers out of the market or to tinker around the edges with measures that would have no real impact on the funds and not fix the problem faced by people desperately seeking to put an affordable roof over their heads. The Government made its choice,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me give the Taoiseach some detail and move from the general to the specific to illustrate how flawed the Government's approach is. There is a sale happening as we speak that will see the largest private rental sector portfolio ever put to the market go to sale. It is being developed by Marlet and represents 2,000 homes across six locations here in Dublin: in Harold's Cross, Howth,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will repeat our positive policies and I would like answers on them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: We propose to end the tax advantages to these funds. We want to ensure that apartments are included in any and all protections and make sure, crucially, that the protections can be applied retrospectively. If the Taoiseach does not do those things, then he is leaving people in the lurch.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Those are the facts.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with other European Heads of Government. [23893/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [23894/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [23895/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic development unit of his Department. [25543/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Council (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the taskforce established by the Heritage Council to consider the future of the National Biodiversity Data Centre will include public submissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26681/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Council (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider underpinning the work of and data held by the National Biodiversity Data Centre in legislation. [26682/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Council (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he received a copy of the Heritage Council review undertaken in 2019 to review the governance, operating and financial models underpinning the National Biodiversity Data Centre; if he will provide a copy of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26687/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Citizens' Assembly (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress he has made on establishing a citizens’ assembly on biodiversity. [26683/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of additional biodiversity and heritage officers employed in each local authority by county since June 2020 to date in tabular form. [26684/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Biodiversity Plan (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he has taken to support biodiversity data collection. [26685/21]