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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Only the Taoiseach. I attack no one else-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----but his Government for its incompetence and its failure of an entire generation. Shame on him.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not agreed. The annual impact report from Women's Aid was published today and the findings are absolutely shocking and devastating. Contact with the service has increased by more than 40% since last year. A number of reviews, audits and so on due for completion in the near future will inform the new national strategy for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I accept this cannot be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Back in May 2017, Sinn Féin brought forward a motion in respect of the national maternity hospital. At that time, and since, very serious questions have been raised about the ownership and governance of this new national facility. I am absolutely astounded that four years later we do not have a straight answer from Government in respect of ownership of this new national maternity...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too raise the ESRI data published yesterday and urge the Taoiseach to form and launch an ambitious, thoughtful and far-reaching recovery package for young people and young workers because all the data reflect that they have been hardest hit and the damage will remain for some time. Social Justice Ireland, the OECD and many others have recognised this fact. The Government's efforts thus...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the National Security Committee chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [29521/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Taoiseach tell us what interaction the National Cyber Security Centre has with the work of the National Security Committee? Is the centre represented on the committee and did either advise the Taoiseach of high-level cybersecurity threats following Government formation last year? As the Taoiseach is aware, the budget and staffing of the National Cyber Security Centre came under...

European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. EU leaders will meet at a crucial juncture. I will raise a number of issues. As we emerge from the pandemic, we have to plot our way ahead carefully and thoughtfully. The Council will meet in June, which is the month of Pride. I cannot let this opportunity go to reiterate our abhorrence towards the discriminatory and bigoted approach adopted by the Hungarian...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (22 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects the National Council for Special Education to complete and submit its policy advice on education provision in special classes and special schools first commissioned in September 2018. [33443/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, the Tánaiste, on his own behalf and presumably on behalf of the Government, made remarks that can only be described as woefully belated in respect of the new national maternity hospital. It is fair to say that we are now looking at a mess with the fingerprints of successive Governments all over it dating back to 2013, when James Reilly was Minister for Health and Children,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not only in the National Maternity Hospital that facilities are suboptimal. I could bring the Taoiseach to the Rotunda Hospital Dublin and could recite for him the endless process that this hospital has endured to secure funding to carry on safe service provision. I see that the Minister is leaving the Chamber now and he is well aware of what I am talking about. I am trying to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is the beginning, the middle and the end of it. Equivocating on the point does not assist-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----in the shared objective of providing those world-class services for the women and neonates the Taoiseach referred to. Will he be specific and send that message? The Sisters of Charity communicated with all of us by means of a press release. I think it appropriate that an answer is heard-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----from the Head of Government as to his expectations. I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in preparing the national economic recovery plan. [33377/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. [31826/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [33087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (23 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding streams that are available for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33823/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 430. To ask the Minister for Health the way Covid-19 vaccines will be provided to persons aged 16 to 59 years who are at high risk group in cases in which their own general practitioner has opted out of providing vaccinations for this group; if impacted persons in this group will be contacted to have this information relayed to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26366/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 434. To ask the Minister for Health the process used to identify persons who are eligible for Covid-19 vaccination aged 16 to 69 years who are at very high risk in cohort 4 and not in regular contact with a hospital or a disability service; the number who have now been identified by general practitioners; the number of persons in this group who have now been invited by their general...