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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...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Last year, the parents of 18 babies born at Cork University Maternity Hospital were informed that their children's organs were sent to Belgium for incineration, without their knowledge or consent. This happened on two occasions between March and April 2020. The bereaved parents had believed that the organs of their babies, who had been subject to autopsy, would be cremated or buried in a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Reports (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report of his Department for 2021 will be published. [25803/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 30. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Lebanon. [29335/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Apologies (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 38. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all State apologies that he has issued since he assumed office. [25804/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 40. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the North-East Inner City Oversight Group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [25805/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 44. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his Department's Shared Island Dialogue series. [35912/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 47. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [35914/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 59. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service unit of his Department. [35913/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Number 201 of 28 June 2022, if the request for consent to increase pensions in payment and deferred pensions impacted by the implementation of the pension levy was sought by Dublin Port Company for the purpose of reversing the levy or as an inflation linked increase; when the request was received by...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and they wanted a party and people at Cabinet who would speak for them and govern for them, but Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Greens could not stomach that and could not stand the thought of a Government led by a party that would prioritise the well-being of ordinary people-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----over vested interests, the insiders and the golden circles.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: What did they do? They clubbed together to stop change. In doing that, they planted the seeds of their own demise and the Government's failure because, make no mistake about it: this is a Government that was born out of necessity, not ambition; formed out of a self-serving desire to keep things the same, rather than to drive progress-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and cobbled together to defend the interests of those at the top, rather than ordinary people, the very definition of cynicism, cynical politics and a cynical Government.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: And so, it is farcical that the Taoiseach proposes to hand the keys of his office back to the Tánaiste in December to carry on as normal, because it is very clear that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been in power for far too long and, by God, families and workers throughout the land have paid a heavy price for that. More and more people see that we need a change of Government,...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I believe we have everything we need to build a new Ireland. We can house our people.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We can have first-class public health and education services. We can create and drive prosperity. We can also unite our country.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: You gave leeway to the Government.