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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government (11 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 40. To ask the Taoiseach the mechanism by which his Department will review progress made in implementing the Programme for Government. [21768/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Government's plan to pay big developers up to €120,000 per apartment they build. This has people shaking their heads in disbelief. Essentially, it means the Government proposes to give €450 million of taxpayers' money to a few developers. This is astonishing. What is more astonishing is that there will be no cut in the price of those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let us have facts and honesty then, shall we? Holles Street is certainly not fit for purpose. It is not fit for purpose because of underinvestment by Government after Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, it is even worse than just that. It is not just Holles Street. The Rotunda Hospital and all of our maternity services are similarly under pressure and, similarly, Government after Government looked the other way.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: What makes it even worse again is that Government after Government in the history of this State colluded with religious dogma to deny us, as women, what we were entitled to by way of healthcare. When we raise these legitimate, well-founded questions in a spirit of honesty, we do that borne of bitter experience and a determination that that will never happen again. The Taoiseach has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The crux of this issue is that the land has not been gifted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me put my question again, a Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach, along with the Tánaiste and the Minister of Health, to go back to St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, which the Taoiseach says has no----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----ulterior motive in the building of this hospital. Let us take it on its word and tell it to make this a clean transaction and gift and transfer that site to the State. In one fell swoop-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----all of our concerns would be resolved. Will the Taoiseach do that, yes or no?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: How are we doing that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, you do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Speaking on the radio yesterday morning, the Taoiseach described questions regarding ownership of the new national maternity hospital as a “red herring”. That is a very unfair characterisation of very genuine concerns that are grounded in decades of women’s experiences of healthcare in this State. The Taoiseach's dismissal of these concerns is particularly disappointing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 743. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to progress payment to non HSE section 38 employees covered by the Government decision regarding Covid recognition payment; if information has been provided to employers to implement this measure for their eligible staff; if information has been provided to employer representative groups in relation to these arrangements; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 744. To ask the Minister for Health the eligibility status for Covid recognition payment in respect of Irish Prison nurses who were working for the Department of Justice throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. [22845/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17581/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagement with the British Prime Minister. [17582/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the President of the United States of America. [14068/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I put it to the Taoiseach again that we work together to move from this convoluted leasing arrangement to simply a gifting of this land to the State so that we have a public first-class centre of excellence for women, publicly built on public land.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. Legally, it is not.