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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (28 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 829. To ask the Minister for Health if he or the Minister of State with special responsibility for disability has met with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the ongoing delays in assessment of needs for the children of its members. [34100/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (29 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has plans to deal with the issues facing residents under a district heating scheme (details supplied). [34796/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (29 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the district heating steering group is expected to bring its report to Government. [34797/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (29 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 181. To ask the Minister for Health when comprehensive supports, including reinstatement of speech and language therapy and an early intervention appointment, will be provided by the children’s disability network team for a child (details supplied) in view of the fact that it is proven that high-quality early intervention has a profound positive effect on outcomes for children with a...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: We have just two weeks left in this Dáil term, which is two weeks for the Government to intervene with measures to alleviate the enormous pressure the cost-of-living crisis is placing on households. Yesterday, the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputies Donohoe, and Michael McGrath, respectively, announced to great fanfare that budget 2023 will be brought...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. Those high structural costs, as he knows, long predate this particular cost-of-living crunch, which I am sure he would acknowledge. The Government's response to these matters has been slow. It has lacked urgency but we can agree to disagree on that. What I would like us to agree on is that families preparing to get children back to school in late...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. The haste with which the Government wishes to move the defective blocks scheme of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, through the Oireachtas is extraordinary and scandalous. I know time is short and we are coming towards the summer break, but we should reflect on the fact the defective blocks containing mica and pyrite have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: This merits comment. The Government is attempting to ram this matter through without proper scrutiny-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and without proper amendment to produce another scheme that will fail. I will place on the record of the House-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that the time allowed for consideration of this is wholly inadequate. People's homes, people's lives-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and a lot of taxpayers' money is at stake here.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will not be rushed, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, in making that point in the most forcible way-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----I can on behalf of those families and communities.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: SIPTU members employed by the Irish Wheelchair Association are on strike today. They are on the picket line because they have not had a pay increase in 14 years. Even though they do the same work as HSE healthcare assistants, they are paid a lot less, which is €3 per hour less. As the Tánaiste will be aware, this is a common problem across section 39 organisations. These are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I extend a very warm welcome to all the groups in the Public Gallery referred to by Deputy Cairns. Tá fáilte rompu go léir. Parents across Ireland are under enormous pressure to meet extortionate back to school costs. It is a big source of stress for families every summer but this year is exceptional, given the ever worsening cost-of-living crisis. For weeks, we have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government took its time listening to what is just plain common sense by making a move on these matters now in July and putting money in families' pockets when they need it and when it will count. I ask the Minister to take the next step. He is surely not saying to families who have €621 a week that they are home and hosed, and that it is plain sailing for them. We describe...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has left those families behind. It is disgraceful.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are perfectly happy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Everyday, people are asking themselves after a decade of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael botched policy that favoured private developers and landlords, how is it that in the face of a crisis like no other in housing we are subjected to the same banal rhetoric we have had to listen to for the last ten or 15 minutes. The Minister should ask himself how we have record house prices, record rent...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----for the honour and glory-----