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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 401. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will publish the report of the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes and Related Institutions, submitted in December 2018. [45525/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 402. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he consulted with the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes and Related Institutions prior to or following his announcement last year of his intention to appoint a human rights legal expert to review the evidence given to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the efforts that his Department has made to identify the burial places of approximately 850 children known to have died in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork but the locations of their remains are unknown. [45527/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (15 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average driving test wait period in all test centres in tabular form; and if he is satisfied with the variation and length of wait times. [45287/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (15 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 311. To ask the Minister for Health if he or the Minister of State with Special Responsibility for Disability have met with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the ongoing delays in assessment of needs for the children of its members. [45352/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach knows, the ECB has hiked mortgage interest rates by a record margin. It does so at a time when Central Statistics Office, CSO, data released today show house prices soaring above Celtic tiger levels. There are increases of 10.4% in Dublin and of more than 15% outside the capital. I would like to know what action the Government is going to take in response. In terms of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not for the first time but once again, the Taoiseach is totally and utterly wrong in his response here. Our proposal is about helping families. It is about providing certainty so they can get through what will be very difficult winter months. Our proposals are time limited. Interventions at European level are, of course, necessary and welcome, but they should not be used again as an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: So may the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Winter is not-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked the Taoiseach about energy. He will not give people certainty.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for that unparalleled vote of confidence; I am very touched.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat. I first acknowledge the presence of the British ambassador to Ireland. Cuirim fáilte roimhe. I extend again our profound sympathies on the loss of Queen Elizabeth II for the British people, in particular for Irish unionists for whom she has been a very significant figure of great affinity and affection. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dílis. As the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commemorative Events (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 60. To ask the Taoiseach the date on which the State commemoration will be held in remembrance of all those who lost their lives in the Civil War period. [44806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 79. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 42 of 8 September 2022, when he will ratify International Labour Organisation Convention No. 190. [45042/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 523. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently awaiting orthopaedic surgery at each of the Children’s Health Ireland hospitals in tabular form. [44525/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 524. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on the waiting list for spinal fusion surgery at Temple Street Children’s Hospital; and the length of time that each child has been on the waiting list in tabular form. [44526/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 526. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in completing 67 additional spinal fusion surgeries and 28 additional spinal procedures for children with scoliosis as well as an additional 141 procedures for children with spina bifida following his announcement earlier in 2022 of an additional €17.43 million of current and capital funding to increase orthopaedic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 528. To ask the Minister for Health if the additional current and capital funding for orthopaedic activity at Children’s Health Ireland which includes various sections (details supplied) has been used solely to increase orthopaedic activity at CHI; and if not, if the budgets have in part or in whole been reallocated or used to fund other areas of care in CHI. [44534/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (14 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the regulation under the Data Protection Act 2018 to facilitate the transfer of information to Operation Denton has been finalised. [38887/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I very much welcome that. I think we are of one mind across the Dáil that all this is completely unacceptable. As the Taoiseach has described, the families have been through losing a precious child, a loved one, and then experienced the horror of discovering that their organs were disposed of in this manner, alongside, as I said, medical waste. This can never, ever happen again. We...