Results 2,401-2,420 of 21,096 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is a commitment in the strategy statement to focus on building stronger and safer communities through reforms in the areas of housing, policing, community safety and community development. The strategy makes a specific reference to the implementation of policing reforms and to the Dublin north-east inner city initiative. The Taoiseach met with members of the North Inner City Community...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, an agency under the aegis of his Department. [7524/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The council's shared island perspective on mental health, published a few weeks ago, concludes that "there is scope for development, and much value to be found, in increased cross-border co-operation". The research finds that "many aspects of mental health services and promotion are well-suited to cross-border working, such as [for example,] ... on-line supports, mental health promotion, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: One of the core activities of the Department of the Taoiseach is to provide leadership of the Civil Service renewal programme through the Civil Service management board in collaboration with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Last month, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform told an Oireachtas committee of his intention to establish an independent review panel to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In 2014, the constitutional convention supported the insertion of the right to housing into the Constitution. This has not happened. We have had delay after delay. The issue has been discussed at length. The Oireachtas housing committee has considered legislation to this effect. Today, we have another delay mechanism. Why are we still waiting for this? Why will the Government not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody is under any illusion but that Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation are the aggressors in this scenario and they have brazenly breached international law. They have launched an all-out offensive against a sovereign people and they have, as the Taoiseach has correctly said, committed war crimes on the watch of the international community. We need to see an intensification of this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ar dtús, ba mhaith liom mo dhlúthpháirtíocht, agus dlúthpháirtíocht Shinn Féin, a léiriú le muintir na hÚcráine. Ba mhaith liom ár dtacaíocht a léiriú leo. Ní féidir le éinne a bhfuil meas acu ar an saoirse ach breathnú le huafás ar ghníomhartha na Rúise san Úcráin....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 125. To ask the Taoiseach the dates on which the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality met from February 2016 to date inclusive. [11632/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 620. To ask the Minister for Health if home help staff employed by services (details supplied) who worked throughout the pandemic will received the Covid-19 recognition payment for frontline healthcare workers [10874/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown by hospital of the €19 million in additional funding for children in need of orthopaedic surgery; if the €19 million is additional baseline funding for each hospital; if not, if it is once-off funding; and the average waiting time reduction in each hospital for children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, scoliosis and other...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 347. To ask the Minister for Health the current and capital breakdown by hospital of the €19 million in additional funding for children who are in need of orthopaedic surgery, in tabular form. [10588/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 348. To ask the Minister for Health if the assessment panel has concluded that section 39 and section 10 front-line Dublin homeless network staff who worked in clinical and congregated settings comparable with those of front-line public health employees will receive the Covid-19 recognition payment. [10591/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 349. To ask the Minister for Health if the €19 million in additional funding for children who are in need of orthopaedic surgery includes capital or current expenditure committed to in the budgets for 2020 and 2021 or 2022; and, if so, if he will provide a breakdown of the amount that was committed to. [10595/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (24 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 361. To ask the Minister for Health if he has responded to correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the request to establish a working group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10635/22]

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The footprints of collusion that track across Britain's dirty war in Ireland chart a shameful trail of state murder. It was directed and co-ordinated at the highest levels of the British system, in alliance with loyalist death squads, and targeted the nationalist community, Sinn Féin representatives, human rights activists and, indeed, the fledgling peace process itself. The series of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (23 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the schedule of dialogues to be delivered by the shared island unit of his Department for 2022. [9276/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (23 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too wish to record my sympathies to the wife and four children of Christopher Stalford, MLA, and his wider circle of friends, family and colleagues in the DUP. The Taoiseach and his office have assumed an oversight role in the delivery of the third strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. What part will the shared island unit play in that work? The Tusla review of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Europe will next meet. [6125/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: While I appreciate that, correctly, so much of the Taoiseach's attention will be on happenings in Ukraine and the escalating situation there I want to draw his attention once again to the need to end trade with illegal settlements in Palestine. He knows that Trócaire is just one of many NGOs and human rights groups supporting a European citizens' initiative that makes precisely this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [7521/22]