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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints received in each of the years 2016 to 2022 regarding the failure to carry out an assessment of need in line with standards in each CHO area; and the number of complaints that were upheld in tabular form. [8903/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 300. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints officers who are currently employed to deal with assessment of need related complaints in each CHO area; and the location of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8904/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the way the funding made available to address overdue assessment of need applications was distributed across CHO areas; the reported impact of this action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8918/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [6124/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last month, the Taoiseach announced that the Department of Justice will assume overall responsibility for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV, services and policy. I understand the Minister brought a memorandum to the Cabinet this week on the very long-awaited Tusla review into the provision of accommodation for victims of domestic violence. Will the Tusla report be published...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will finish now. Could the Taoiseach clarify the purpose of this agency and give some reassurance about addressing the chronic shortage of refuges and that the funding of services will not be delayed by its establishment?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise with the Taoiseach again the closure of the Keltoi rehabilitation unit at St. Mary's Hospital in the Phoenix Park. As the Taoiseach will be aware, this has been raised consistently by Members of the Oireachtas over the past two years and, indeed, by people working in addiction services, locally and nationally. Currently, the facility is closed and is hosting a social...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagement with the British Prime Minister. [7523/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I spoke to the Taoiseach after the publication of the latest report of the Police Ombudsman. Having due regard for the fact that this is just the latest in a series of damning reports that shine a light on collusion, the actions of the British state, the targeting and murder of citizens by agents of the state, I said that it would be important that we have a full, comprehensive response from...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The parents and staff of Scoil Naomh Cholmcille in County Louth are at the gates of the Dáil today. They are protesting the failure of the Government to provide the school with an adequate number of special needs assistants, SNAs, for children with autism spectrum disorder. They have just one SNA to share between 12 kids. It is by no means a unique situation. SNA provision is in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In those circumstances the Taoiseach and his Government are failing miserably in their task. I do not accept his excuse this is a consequence of Covid. For example, he said he would eliminate waiting lists when he was Minister for Health 20 years ago. We now have 900,000 people waiting on lists. In 2015, the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach's partner in government and a former Minister for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Taoiseach, answer the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: And people on trolleys.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In February 2015, a 100-year-old woman was left lying on a trolley for 24 hours in Tallaght hospital. The case sparked outrage and anger. At the time the Taoiseach described the incident as “a truly scandalous situation”. We were told this should not have happened and the cry from the Government was one of never again. In November of that same year, a 91-year-old man spent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress made on the economic recovery plan published by his Department in May 2021. [7525/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government's Harnessing Digital - The Digital Ireland Framework strategy. [7526/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [7522/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Once again we have very disturbing, upsetting news from the north west and once again a question mark is placed over the ability of the HSE to safely provide services to citizens with disabilities. I understand the Minister is to establish an independent review not just into this latest episode but into the services more generally. When will the terms of reference for the review will be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should do something about it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I shared stories with the Taoiseach, real lived experiences in the here and now. People are making choices between heat and food. People feel lost and frightened. It is not an exaggeration to say that families are staring into the abyss. That is the truth. You cannot spin the truth of people's lives. The Government has not cushioned these people or their families. The budget did not do...