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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his officials informed the chairperson of a group (details supplied) of his Department’s participation in and funding of a compensation package offer to street traders prior to the group submitting its final report to him in May 2021. [22298/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 338. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1137 of 26 April 2022 if his proposals for the introduction of domestic violence leave include paid leave. [22285/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 339. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1139 of 26 April 2022 in which he states that the list of issues prior to reporting did not include reference to the second Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and therefore there is no reference to the issue in the State...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 428. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to end mixed-gender wards across public hospitals in each CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21731/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Speaking on the radio yesterday morning, the Taoiseach described questions regarding ownership of the new national maternity hospital as a “red herring”. That is a very unfair characterisation of very genuine concerns that are grounded in decades of women’s experiences of healthcare in this State. The Taoiseach's dismissal of these concerns is particularly disappointing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, you do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let us have facts and honesty then, shall we? Holles Street is certainly not fit for purpose. It is not fit for purpose because of underinvestment by Government after Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, it is even worse than just that. It is not just Holles Street. The Rotunda Hospital and all of our maternity services are similarly under pressure and, similarly, Government after Government looked the other way.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: What makes it even worse again is that Government after Government in the history of this State colluded with religious dogma to deny us, as women, what we were entitled to by way of healthcare. When we raise these legitimate, well-founded questions in a spirit of honesty, we do that borne of bitter experience and a determination that that will never happen again. The Taoiseach has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The crux of this issue is that the land has not been gifted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me put my question again, a Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach, along with the Tánaiste and the Minister of Health, to go back to St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, which the Taoiseach says has no----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----ulterior motive in the building of this hospital. Let us take it on its word and tell it to make this a clean transaction and gift and transfer that site to the State. In one fell swoop-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----all of our concerns would be resolved. Will the Taoiseach do that, yes or no?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: How are we doing that?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Government's plan to pay big developers up to €120,000 per apartment they build. This has people shaking their heads in disbelief. Essentially, it means the Government proposes to give €450 million of taxpayers' money to a few developers. This is astonishing. What is more astonishing is that there will be no cut in the price of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 743. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to progress payment to non HSE section 38 employees covered by the Government decision regarding Covid recognition payment; if information has been provided to employers to implement this measure for their eligible staff; if information has been provided to employer representative groups in relation to these arrangements; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 744. To ask the Minister for Health the eligibility status for Covid recognition payment in respect of Irish Prison nurses who were working for the Department of Justice throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. [22845/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the real and serious concerns held by many regarding the ownership of the new national maternity hospital. The Taoiseach dismissed these concerns again and doubled down on his characterisation of this issue as a "red herring". However, last night in a letter to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health, two HSE board members, Professor Deirdre Madden...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach knows, for a very long time, midwives, clinicians and all concerned - and women of course - have been very much in favour of a new maternity hospital and proper investment in maternity services. That should not surprise any of us. The Taoiseach said there is an unanswered question. Let me put this to him. He says that €10 a year for 299 or 300 years is effective...