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Residential Institutions Redress (Amendment) Bill, 2011: Second Stage (14 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: No matter how often the issue of abuse in institutions, including religious institutions, is discussed, it is almost impossible not to be shocked and horrified all over again by the kind of nihilistic viciousness that was visited on so many innocent children, whose only crime was to be born poor, to a single parent or to be orphans. After so many years of dealing with the tragic aftermath of...

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Tánaiste will agree the Cloyne report represents another chapter in the sordid story of the violation of children and sheltering of perpetrators of abuse by the Catholic Church. It needs to be recognised in this House that, to date, the State has failed children. It has failed in its duty to protect children from abuse, vindicate the rights of abuse victims and subject...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (13 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 22: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to lobby the Sri Lankan Government to lift the Prevention of Terrorism Act; if he intends to press the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission to inform relatives when a citizen is arrested; if he will urge the Sri Lankan Government to adhere to a 2006 presidential directive by registering detainees,...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (13 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 30: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the Israeli authorities' permission for an average of only 715 truckloads of construction material per month for the rebuilding of Gaza is insufficient when a report by 25 non-governmental organisations, including Amnesty International, and based on UN data, requires 670,000 truckloads of...

Written Answers — Rights of the Child: Rights of the Child (12 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase children's ability to have their voices heard in matters concerning them; if she will increase the number of guardians [i]ad litem[/i] in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19894/11]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (12 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish a new policy framework for youth work and youth service provision. [19893/11]

Written Answers — Community Welfare Service: Community Welfare Service (12 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 271: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to move the delivery of community welfare services to local social protection offices from local Health Service Executive offices throughout the State and if so, the date of same. [20054/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (12 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will immediately publish the Magdalene Laundries inter-departmental committee terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19791/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (12 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 447: To ask the Minister for Health the key front line services to which the remaining 310 public servants who previously processed medical and general practitioner cards around the country have been redeployed. [19947/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 448: To ask the Minister for Health the name of the company with which the Health Service Executive has a contract to provide customer support services to the primary care reimbursement service in Finglas, Dublin 11; the length of time the HSE had a contract with the company; if he will provide in tabular form the number of whole-time equivalent staff the company has supplied to the...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (7 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes to be made to the current school enrolment policy that will deal with the discriminatory practices which have allowed elite schools to flout the equality legislation by actively discouraging the intake of pupils with special educational needs and behavioural difficulties. [19145/11]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (7 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which a special education needs officers can overrule a specific and explicit recommendation by a consultant child psychiatrist that a pupil being treated by him or her should have access to a special needs assistant. [19144/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (7 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to publish the consolidated comprehensive spending review following the presentation of the same to the Cabinet in September. [19409/11]

Written Answers — Stadium Projects: Stadium Projects (6 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expand on his comments confirming that he asked the Sports Campus Authority to continue developing the National Sports Campus at Abbotstown, Dublin, on an incremental basis at a low cost. [18960/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (6 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total cost to the State of the Fergus Cahill-Frontier Economics Limited report completed at the beginning of 2011 but as yet unpublished. [19003/11]

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government contains the commitment - or threat - to break up the ESB by stripping it of its transmission assets. The Government has in its possession the Cahill report, which clearly sets out the lunacy of that approach. Nevertheless, I see the legislative programme envisages an electricity transmission assets Bill. When is it proposed to publish the Cahill report and...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has the report. I have had correspondence with him and he is deliberately failing to publish a report paid for by taxpayers-----

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----as the report shows the flaw in Government policy.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The report must be published-----

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----as a matter of urgency.