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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question concerns the expulsion of four senior officials from the Russian embassy in Dublin. I understand these four senior officials have been identified as carrying out activities not "in accordance with [...] standards of diplomatic behaviour". Will the Taoiseach inform the House who these senior officials are and what behaviour marked them out for expulsion? We all dearly hope there...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in the north-east inner city initiative. [12412/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I acknowledge and welcome today's announcement. More to the point, I look forward to seeing the detail of what is proposed for the Magdalen laundry site on Seán McDermott Street. This will be a very significant development locally but also nationally and internationally. It is essential that we get it right in terms of the archive, the site of conscience and the whole area of social...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you, I am much obliged.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions his Department has had with regard to a proposed compensation scheme for street traders on Moore Street in relation to the current planning applications by a company (details supplied) such compensation being payable if permission is granted; the proposed sums of money that would be allocated to this scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the special education teaching allocation of a school (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she is satisfied that the current special needs assistant provision of 1.83 posts for 15 children for the school meets her Department’s domestic and international statutory obligations to children with special educational needs. [16044/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Programme (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 507. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 22 March 2022, if the heads of a bill to give effect to remaining aspects of the EU Work-Life Balance Directive will include a domestic violence paid leave provision. [16324/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 731. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the full particulars, eligibility and terms and conditions regarding the Covid-19 recognition payment for frontline public sector healthcare workers announced by the Government. [16434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 732. To ask the Minister for Health when frontline public sector healthcare workers will receive the Covid-19 recognition payment as announced by the Government. [16435/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ar an Aoine, chonaiceamar an méadú is mó ar easpa dídine ó thosaigh Covid. Tá beagnach 10,000 duine ina gcónaí i dtithíocht éigeandála anois. Is scannal é sin. Is í easpa tithíochta an ghéarchéim is mó sa Stát agus tá sí ag dul in olcas faoi cheannaire an Taoisigh. On Friday, we learned...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is very clear again that the Taoiseach cannot defend his Government’s record on housing. How could he? Some 10,000 homeless is not a slogan. House prices through the roof, where they are up 20% in rural areas, is no slogan. Generations locked out of home ownership and facing extortionate rents is no slogan. There are 35,000 additional homes now required, according to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the single biggest failure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Personal attacks are not acceptable, Taoiseach.

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: First, I want to record again our absolute condemnation of the actions of Russia in invading Ukraine and to extend our solidarity to the Ukrainian people at this time. The actions of the Russian Federation are illegal, brutal and unjust. No country should be subjected to the kind of military aggression faced by Ukraine. The priority must be to end this invasion and secure a Russian...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: British-Irish Co-operation (31 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 257. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress that was made at the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference on the New Decade, New Approach agreement’s outstanding commitments and the significant implications for freedom movement of non-Irish and non-British persons on the island of Ireland as a result of the UK nationality and borders Bill. [17221/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 370. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the challenges facing parents and guardians of children living in Dublin 1 trying to access school vaccination programmes now currently provided for in Swords, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17122/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to ensure that children living in Dublin 1 who are unable to access school vaccination programmes in Swords, County Dublin will be able to receive their vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17123/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to facilitate school immunisation programmes to operate within school settings in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17165/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 380. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the uptake rate for the school immunisation programme for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years in the CHO 9 area; if there are plans in place for a catch-up programme to offset any impact caused by Covid-19-related disruptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17166/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are just three weeks away from the Government's carbon tax hike on 1 May. This is the same day that the latest round of energy price hikes from providers will kick in. The carbon tax will make life harder for workers and families who are already struggling to keep on top of their soaring energy bills. They live in dread, in panic and, in some cases, in fear. People are being fleeced by...