Results 19,601-19,620 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [60870/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (25 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the shared island unit of his Department. [61815/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (24 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Traveller Education Strategy committed to in the 2020 programme for Government will be completed. [2740/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (24 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 421. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to add socio-economic status as a tenth ground of discrimination to relevant legislation. [2733/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Family Support Services (24 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 586. To ask the Minister for Health the current supports available to parents and families bereaved by sudden unexplained death in childhood. [3020/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 587. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that the Government is undertaking to research, raise awareness and collate information regarding sudden unexplained death in childhood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3021/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Vacant Sites (25 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are any future plans for a site (details supplied) in Dublin; and if so, if he will outline these plans. [3393/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (26 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has concluded his consideration of the air connectivity review, which is a commitment under the New Decade, New Approach agreement, and includes the Dublin-Derry route; the progress he has made in the reopening of the Dublin-Derry route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3891/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Special Education submitted its policy advice on education provision in special classes and special schools in December 2022; and when she will publish this advice. [3888/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: For more than 30 years, the State and successive governments have ripped off hundreds and thousands of elderly citizens and their families by unlawfully charging them for nursing home care. Despite consistent, repeated legal advice that those charges were illegal, the Government continued to force vulnerable people to pay up. This created real financial hardship and pushed many into poverty...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact the Taoiseach acted in bad faith, as did his colleagues, his predecessors and, it seems, his successors. The Taoiseach has confirmed to the House that he was wrong yesterday; that he knew about this strategy and that he had been briefed. Can he confirm that other members of the Government - the Ministers, Deputies Simon Harris and Helen McEntee, and the Tánaiste, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: There was no legal entitlement to charge.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure people will have heard very clearly that not alone had the Taoiseach been briefed on and overseen the legal strategy to frustrate those who had been illegally charged in getting their money back but that, in fact, he supports that strategy, and I assume that stands for his colleague, the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris. It needs to be said that neither the Ombudsman or the Irish...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is contested.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked how many cases there are, as of today, that are still live.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is contested too.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The case for a citizens' assembly on drugs has been made for a long time and there is an urgency around it. I support it. I wish it could be brought forward more quickly than the Taoiseach has indicated but I appeal to him to stick to the commitment and to the date as set out. Would the Taoiseach believe me if I told him that for the past year and a half there has been no functioning...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality will next meet. [61817/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, GREVIO, which is tasked with monitoring signatory states' implementation of the Istanbul Convention, is meeting with Irish stakeholders this week. In its submission to GREVIO, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC, has called for the urgent implementation of multi-agency domestic homicide...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We once again have record homelessness figures. Nearly 3,500 children live with that trauma. I ask the Taoiseach, as his first move in dealing with child poverty, which requires dealing with poverty itself, to commit to extending the ban on evictions, which is due to run out in a short number of weeks. As a confidence-building gesture around this commitment to deal with child poverty, I...