Results 261-280 of 21,383 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: No. Do your job.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: However, the parents are left in the dark.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, the Northern Assembly voted in favour of a motion to extend presidential voting rights to Irish citizens in the North. This sends a powerful democratic message that Irish citizens in the North must be allowed to vote for their first citizen, for their Uachtaráin. For more than a decade, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have promised to make this happen. It has been contained...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the North. We are not talking about overseas.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am worried about the North.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am aware of that. The Taoiseach is refusing to confirm how many letters issued and how many children are involved.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is outrageous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The anxiety of these parents could not be overstated. As the Taoiseach has correctly noted, the initial sample between 2021 and 2023 involves children between the ages of one and seven. These are very young children, and the idea of any small child being operated on unnecessarily is extremely traumatising for their parents. Their anxiety has been added to by the Government's absolute lack...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Then answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The letters have gone out.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I offer condolences to everyone who loved Garda Kevin Flatley: his heartbroken wife, Una, and their two children, Aoife and Erin; his parents, family and friends; and, of course, his colleagues in An Garda Síochána. He was a devoted father, a man with a deep grá for community and a GAA man with his beloved club, O'Dwyer's in Balbriggan. His death is a devastating reminder of...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 245. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the European Council on 20-21 March 2025. [22210/25]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 246. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee for Climate Action, Environment and Energy will next meet. [22211/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the nationwide pilot plan to redistribute therapists through 16 selected special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24111/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she plans to address the recruitment challenges currently being experienced by phase 1 and phase 2 of the nationwide pilot plan to redistribute therapists through 16 selected special schools. [24112/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Appointments (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to provide places for parents and carers to be represented on the Department of An Taoiseach Disability Unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24113/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she plans to ensure the continuity of the current Laois/Offaly MDT service which operates outside of the pilot programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24115/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Appointments (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism by which she will ensure the Disability Committee is accessible to parents and carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24117/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Oireachtas Committees (13 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1146. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism by which she will ensure the Disability Committee is accessible to parents and carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24116/25]