Results 17,981-18,000 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are currently awaiting outpatient eye care treatment in the community healthcare organisation Dublin north city and county area; the average waiting time for an outpatient appointment; the average waiting time for a procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45851/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in the community healthcare organisation Dublin north city and county area who have been waiting six, 12, 18 and more than 18 months to access outpatient eye care. [45852/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will facilitate the appointment of the new chairperson of the North Inner City Drug and Alcohol Taskforce as agreed by consensus at the taskforce minuted meeting of 16 March 2021, in full adherence to the Local and Regional Drugs Task Forces Handbook. [45860/21]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hospital waiting lists have spiralled out of control. We have more than 900,000 people waiting for vital medical care as we speak. I want to focus on just one of the very alarming aspects of this crisis and that is the more than 100,000 children who today go without the treatment they need. I am talking about children in need of a disability diagnosis, an autism assessment or access to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Níl rudaí ag athrú. Tá an córas sláinte faoi bhrú agus tá 100,000 páiste ar liostaí feithimh. Is é seo an fhírinne. They are the facts. There are 100,000 children on these waiting lists. The Taoiseach speaks of the additional €1.2 billion that has been committed but one third of that money has not even been spent. I...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: There were to be 15,000.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are not problematic about this. This side of the House supports public medicine.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is Leaders' Questions.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are not agreed. This morning, we heard very harrowing news about an investigation being carried out at Cork University Maternity Hospital after it emerged that the organs of 18 babies were transported abroad and disposed of by incineration without the consent or knowledge of their parents. I am sure we can only imagine the extreme hurt and distress that those families are now...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, the Taoiseach's colleague, the Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, enraged hard-pressed renters when he said that "one person's rent is another person's income". Not to be outdone by him, this week the Taoiseach's man, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, told reporters the property market is not "out of control". On what planet are these...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Stop bluffing; it is beneath you.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The problem is the policy failed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [44742/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government states that, "A strong education system is the cornerstone of a thriving language", and commits to providing Gaelscoileanna agus Gaelcholáistí. This and successive governments have failed the parents, the children, more particularly, and the staff of Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square East. These have been waiting for a permanent school...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Two decades for kids in those communities.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the unit to be established in his Department with responsibility for ongoing monitoring and oversight of implementation of the Housing for All plan. [44741/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Following a meeting last April with the developer Hammerson, the Taoiseach took the extraordinary step of providing an endorsement quote for Hammerson's press statement when that developer announced submission of its Moore Street planning application to Dublin City Council. The Taoiseach may have welcomed its plan; however, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage did not....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----meets the historical, social, economic and sustainability thresholds set by the Department and the elected Members of this House and of Dublin City Council. I ask the Taoiseach to make a commitment today that he will meet with the relatives and their architect to hear and see at first hand the remarkable, appropriate plans they have developed for this site.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: You are being completely paranoid about it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: It has not been brought to a conclusion.