Results 201-220 of 21,096 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 38. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Climate Action, Environment and Energy will next meet. [6075/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 778. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to review the terms of the drugs payment scheme; if she will extend the long-term illness scheme in order to include rheumatoid arthritis as a long-term chronic illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9782/25]

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Le trí bliana anuas tá muintir na hÚcráine tar éis an fód a sheasamh go cróga i gcoinne ionradh brúidiúil na Rúise ar a dtír. Tá gá arís le meas don dlí idirnáisiúnta agus do cheart na hÚcráine flaitheas, féinchinntiúchán agus saoire a bheith aici. Ní féidir ligean don...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Cuirim fáilte ó chroí roimh Larysa Gerasko. The ambassador is very welcome. Today, we think first and foremost of the people of Ukraine. Three years ago, Russia launched a brutal criminal invasion of Ukraine. Putin's invasion continues to be an attack on Ukraine's right to self-determination, sovereignty and peace. It is also a violation of international law. We have...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to be very clear. Ireland has built a powerful voice for peace and justice in the world. We are seen as an honest, credible actor in international affairs-----

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----because of our status of being military unaligned and our long-standing tradition of neutrality. Ireland's neutrality is our strength. It is now about showing leadership on the world stage, finding solutions, de-escalating crises and contributing to peacekeeping. Ireland's principled refusal to embrace military might as a means of resolving the world's problems is respected....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am glad the Taoiseach agrees with me that this situation is entirely unacceptable, that children are left without access to urgent dental care. I also welcome the fact that the Taoiseach will, as I understand it, make a direct intervention in respect of Tiernan, because a solution needs to be-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am putting the question to the Taoiseach, with respect, not to the Chief Whip. I asked that the Taoiseach make an intervention, and I would appreciate it if he did that. The problem is that we cannot bring all 7,000 stories of all of those children waiting for more than a year, or the 1,100 who have been waiting four years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: We would do nothing else if we were to do that. I am concerned that the Taoiseach is not recognising the problem or his part in it. The Taoiseach is not a commentator; he has been in government for a very considerable period.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I said to the Taoiseach that we have 25% less public dentists-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----than we had in 2006. Therein lies the root of the problem, and we need to address it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Parents of children with special needs are constantly coming up against brick walls while trying to access essential services for their children. The scandal of children with scoliosis and spina bifida, left in pain while waiting for their operations, has been one of this Government's most damning failures. The heartbreaking stories of people being left behind often involve excruciating...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: To be clear, that has been sought and secured. This case is on the public record.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 30. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet [2681/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raise with the Taoiseach the remarks made by the US President - or I should say the threat made by the US President - in respect of the Gaza Strip, in which he openly countenanced the mass expulsion of the Palestinian population and the annexation and seizure of those lands and their development, he seemed to suggest, into some form of Riviera. I would like the Taoiseach to agree with me...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [2680/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. That is a very generous allocation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Access to general practitioners is under pressure right across the State but particularly in some areas of very grave disadvantage, one of which is Summerhill in Dublin 1. For the past eight years the Summerhill Family Practice operated by the charity GP Care For All, has provided 2,632 people with GP services in the north inner city. That service is under threat because of Revenue rules....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The parents of children with special needs face a constant battle to find school places for their children. The idea that any child is forced into a lottery for the chance of getting a school place is unthinkable, and yet it is happening. The child's future is down to the luck of the draw. The child whose number does not come up is left behind. The mother of Jay Meehan from Waterford is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is unacceptable. It will not fly. I am on my feet to make that clear to the Taoiseach.