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- 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.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: There are insults from the Taoiseach's side of the House.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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: 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will publish the review of the implementation of the Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty which he stated would be completed over the 2022 summer recess. [45449/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the publication date for the Heads of the Local Government (Maternity Protection for Local Authority Elected Members) Bill 2022 that provides maternity leave for local authority-elected members. [46045/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 398. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has reached an agreement with the relevant religious orders on contributing towards redress for survivors of mother and baby homes. [45472/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 399. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress to date in implementing each of the seventeen recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection Proposals for a State Response to Illegal Birth Registration in Ireland in tabular form. [45483/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 400. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the dates on which he has met with the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes and Related Institutions in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [45524/22]