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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (8 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 279. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the new National Strategy for Women and Girls for 2022 to 2025 will be published; and if the study commissioned by his Department to evaluate the processes for implementation of three equality strategies, which includes the National Strategy for Women and Girls, as well as the Migrant Integration Strategy...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister for this constructive approach. It is much appreciated and I acknowledge this, as others have. I again appeal to the Minister to at least keep an open mind on a programmatic audit. He does not need to convince anyone here on the learning, educational value or the need for metadata. We could have a much more progressive and nuanced approached to this in which the need...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: As has been said by others, it is very important that we get this legislation right. It is important legally that we have clarity and we are clear procedurally that what we are agreeing to will work. This is because, of course, women and their families have had the awful experience of the CervicalCheck scandal but as my colleague, Deputy Tully, referred to, that is not the only scandal, and...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. She was entirely unaware. That review process is a separate issue. In an anonymised scenario, would that information have found its way onto her files? The answer to that question is "No".

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The answer to that question is "No". If there is concern around an entirely anonymised system, a halfway house can be found on that. The Government can give women and patients choice in respect of any future look-backs as to whether their sample or slide would be anonymised. I suggest, and my instinct is, that most people, when we talk about information, clarity, transparency and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Gould is never wrong.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The housing emergency is now spilling into education. Schools are really struggling to recruit teachers, teachers cannot afford the extortionate rents that are being charged and many are locked out of any real opportunity of ever purchasing their own home. I was shocked and gobsmacked to hear the Minister for Education's first response to this was a suggestion of cancelling career breaks...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach does not have to convince any of us of the need for that kind of meta-analysis for educational purposes and, more important, for quality control and assurance. I remind the House that this legislation is about the provision of information. It is not about medical malpractice or any other legal processes. This is about information. I believe the Taoiseach, like the rest of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need more time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is imperative we get it right.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Vicky Phelan died three weeks ago. The Taoiseach knows she spent her final years fighting for change. She was very clear on what she wanted to see. To recall, she said to the political system: I don't want your accolades or your broken promises. I want action. I want change. I want accountability. It was a most eloquent and heartbreaking call to action for all of the women and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (7 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she intends to publish the report on the study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61112/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: And it will be guillotined.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise the issue of the patient safety Bill. Members will acknowledge and remember that recently, at the time of the death of Vicky Phelan, the Taoiseach reiterated a Government promise to achieve full open disclosure. The legislation is to come before the House and the debate is to be guillotined. The Minister for Health has tabled 50 separate amendments but the one amendment we...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, it will still fall to the woman to require a review.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is absolutely outrageous and totally unacceptable.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fact the Government would seek to move flawed legislation in this way and, furthermore, to guillotine the debate is all the more insulting to the women who have suffered as a result of the CervicalCheck scandal.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me tell the Minister this: the Government's policies are driving an entire generation of our young people to Perth, Sydney, Toronto and beyond.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: That is what the Government is at. I will tell the Minister what our policies will do: our approach will move heaven and earth to keep those young people at home or, if they have gone away, to give them an opportunity to come back. The Minister describes this as a significant challenge. Let us get the language right. This is an emergency and a disaster for families in their real, lived...