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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: 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]

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...