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Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The independent panel on strengthening Civil Service accountability and performance made a number of recommendations in 2014, one of which was the establishment of the Civil Service accountability board, chaired by the Taoiseach. My colleague, Deputy Mairéad Farrell, raised the issue of the board's work with the Taoiseach last month. The Taoiseach confirmed then that the board had not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the accountability board been stood down?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was that announced?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the German Chancellor. [11090/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach said, since his meeting with Chancellor Scholz, the situation in Ukraine has deteriorated. Russia’s violation of international law and its succession of war crimes have played out and continue to play out before the eyes of the world. Nearly 2 million men, women and children are estimated to have fled. As today is International Women’s Day, we are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I echo the Taoiseach’s thanks to Chancellor Scholz and to the German Government for their solidarity regarding the Good Friday Agreement and the Irish protocol. It is extremely difficult to run through all of my contribution in one minute, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a bit ridiculous.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was reported the Catholic Church Primate has not yet met the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, to discuss the church's financial contribution to the mother and baby home redress scheme. Needless to say, this is very disappointing; it is alarming actually. The Taoiseach did not indicate whether he has had this discussion with the religious leaders. What progress has the Minister made in his...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question was not answered. It was on mother and baby homes.

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too send my solidarity to all the women of Ukraine, some of whom have fled, many of whom have remained, all fighting for their families, for their homes and for the very survival of their country. Each has shown courage, resilience and humanity that has won the support and admiration of people across the globe. Of course, the priority now has to be to stop this war, end the conflict and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I told the Taoiseach that surging fuel prices required that the Government take urgent action to relieve the immense pressure people are under. I appealed to him to bring forward a financial resolution to cut excise duty on petrol and diesel and to remove it entirely from home heating oil. I am very glad to see that good sense has prevailed and the Taoiseach accepts the need to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Amy cannot get her child to a hospital visit. I am not asking the Taoiseach to control international events through some miracle. I know he cannot control them. Neither can I. Nobody here can. I am asking the Taoiseach to do every single thing he can, and to do so quickly, to ensure that mothers like Amy, couples like Lorraine and her partner, workers and small businesses are not totally...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The prices are growing at such a rate that people expect the Taoiseach to stretch himself and to stretch our European partners and to act in what is a crisis situation. By the way, we have been on to the Taoiseach since last September about talking to the Commission about VAT. He has not done that so he should not cry now. He should tell us how he can get these prices down and keep them...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We as a team have been raising the issue of the cost of living for a year, I think. The Taoiseach acknowledges and we all know the pressure that people are under; therefore, it is incumbent on us to act and to prepare to act. On several occasions this afternoon, the Taoiseach has referenced the price of food. From his commentary, I am reading that he assumes sharp increases in food prices....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Múinteoir, I will go home and reflect. I will do lines for you, if you like, and bring them in, or detention.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [11088/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to update the national reform programme. [12410/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 129. To ask the Taoiseach the dates on which each Cabinet Committee (details supplied) met from June 2020 to date inclusive [13114/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion has met with the parents of children attending a school (details supplied) regarding the under provision of special needs assistants as committed to on 16 February 2022. [12378/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (8 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 476. To ask the Minister for Health further to the advice from NPHET on the removal of mandatory Covid-19 restrictions from 28 February 2022, if the Keltoi residential addiction unit, St. Mary’s Hospital, Phoenix Park will be reopened. [12355/22]