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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is there no space this week?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Mairéad Farrell will put the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Finland and Estonia. [24324/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [22875/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Biodiversity Plan (17 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that he has made in establishing a new national biodiversity data centre as a company limited by guarantee, subject to oversight by the Heritage Council, with a purpose to collect, record and maintain data on Ireland's biodiversity and make them available to the public. [24859/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I again raised with the Taoiseach the importance of the Government securing public ownership of the site on which the new national maternity hospital will be built. I also expressed my astonishment that neither the Taoiseach nor the Minister for Health had made any substantial effort to convince St. Vincent's Healthcare Group to transfer that land to the State. Furthermore, I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Indeed it is time. That is nine long years. For a very long time women in midwifery, and all concerned in obstetrics and the care and provision of services for women, have been calling for proper investment in maternity services and health services for women. There is no great surprise in that. We all share that ambition. The hospital has to get built. The only fog and confusion are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to secure the ambition of that motion and the expressed will of the Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: So why are-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to return, if I can, to the Milne family - to Ryan and Kyle and their parents, Gillian and Darren - whose circumstances were outlined earlier. Gillian and Darren have struggled for years to secure the appropriate services and school placement for their young boys. In his response to Deputy Bacik, it sounded as though the Taoiseach was laying culpability for this at the feet of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----in honouring the law in respect of those with disabilities. What is the Government's plan for increased resources in order that Kyle, Ryan and others like them can avail of the services that they are entitled to?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet subcommittee to oversee the State response to the Ukraine crisis will next meet. [22873/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recently completed ESRI shared island report, A North-South Comparison of Education and Training Systems: Lessons for Policy. [22878/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [22874/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Who do you write the cheque to?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 490. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to the conclusion of the National Strategy for Women and Girls 2017 to 2021, when work on a new strategy will commence. [25663/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's failure to plan for the recovery of Ireland's tourism sector has come home to roost in a fairly catastrophic fashion. Families are missing out on holidays because of long delays in issuing passports, hotels are charging between €350 and €400 for one night and now the State's main airport is experiencing chaos. Dublin Airport on Sunday was a nightmare for those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister said there was a significant political intervention in March and April, when these problems emerged. I have to tell him, that intervention did not succeed in its purpose and Sunday showed us the evidence of that. The airport is still operating understaffed, at 70% of its pre-Covid strength. The management of the Dublin Airport Authority, it seems to me, grossly misjudged what...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3 o’clock On Friday we had another very depressing sense of déjà vuin respect of family homelessness when the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage reported that we are now back to pre-pandemic levels of homelessness, with more than 10,000 people in emergency accommodation, nearly 3,000 of whom are children. This is the sharpest edge of the housing crisis...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagement with the British Prime Minister following the recent Stormont election. [25801/22]