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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (15 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 311. To ask the Minister for Health if he or the Minister of State with Special Responsibility for Disability have met with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the ongoing delays in assessment of needs for the children of its members. [45352/22]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. Workers across the country will be deeply alarmed and angered by the Government's latest plan for the State pension. Let us call this what it is: a Trojan horse designed by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to move the pension age to 70 by stealth. The cat is out of the bag. The Government wants people to work until the age of 70. I suppose...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: All of the anxiety that has been caused on this issue has been caused by the Taoiseach and people of his ilk who had plans, bear in mind, to ratchet the pension age up to 67, 68 and beyond. The Taoiseach cited all sorts of reasons and rationale for doing that. Our position has been and remains consistent that the appropriate and fair age to be given the choice to retire with one's pension...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----ratchet the pension age up to 70, and that is simply wrong. I am not one bit ageist. For sure, there are those who will wish to work beyond the age of 65 and they must be facilitated in that. More power to them. However, we live in the real world, gentlemen and ladies, and we live in a world where people who have worked from a young age in very physical jobs simply are not able and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----not simply to set that out?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Then the Taoiseach should address-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: He has not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: We in Sinn Féin introduced legislation on that years ago.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. The Taoiseach does not want to answer. He will not stand over his own proposal. Fine.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: And an enhanced pension at 70.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. I have described it accurately.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last January, the HSE published a review of a junior doctor’s treatment of child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, patients in south Kerry. That review found that 46 children suffered significant harm as a result of inappropriately prescribed medication and a further 181 children were put at risk of harm. The HSE confirms that it has commenced a review of the files of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Taoiseach have an answer to the question?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is the number?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is the number?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has been asked for a number but he is not providing it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is that target?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: How many?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is the number?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: One would expect a bit of decorum from the Taoiseach.