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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Current funding of €5 million is needed. The Government has known about this for many years. It is a matter of funding. We can deal with this quite simply. I want a commitment from the Taoiseach that the moneys required to give these children the procedures they need will be released as a matter of urgency. Deputy Cullinane and I have met with CHI. By all means, the Taoiseach...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (2 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when work on the DEIS refined resource allocation model will be complete and consideration given to extending the DEIS programme to further schools. [5205/22]

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: On Sunday, I had the privilege of accompanying the Bloody Sunday families as they walked the same route taken by those who marched for civil rights 50 years ago. I listened to the families recall those they lost and share their memories of that fateful day. Their pain is still very raw and their deep sense of injustice burns still. They say time heals all wounds but this has not been so...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [2176/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is disappointing that the Government has failed to hear and to respond to the reasonable request from leaving certificate students for fairness and recognise the level of disruption that they have suffered over the past two years. Here is what at least some of them are saying on social media platforms, which are the chosen platforms of this generation. Isobel stated: "I am so upset,...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach’s housing strategy and policy is a fiasco and a disaster. If he was to listen to those we call generation rent and their experiences, that would be apparent to him, as it would if he was to observe the clear generation gap, the generation cleavage that exists right across this State and reflect on the fact a whole generation of people have been locked out not alone from...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [3242/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet committee on Covid-19. [4365/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last September, the Taoiseach said that an evaluation of the State's Covid's response would begin early this year to consider how the country performed for the purposes of learning lessons to be applied in the future. Instead, what has transpired is the establishment of an expert advisory group whose scope is limited to the public health service. It is my strong view that there is a need...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach met with the Women of Honour group yesterday. They had hoped to convince him that Government is taking the wrong approach to cases of rape, sexual assault, bullying and harassment of women within the Defence Forces. Sadly, however, they were left feeling deflated and disappointed following the meeting. The group are correct in saying that the review that has been proposed by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It has also had a deep effect on so many of them personally. They have asked the Government to simply be as fair with them this year as it was with students last year. I appeal to the Taoiseach again. This is the wrong decision and I invite the Taoiseach and the Minister to reverse it in the interests of those students.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: There are options.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Ó Laoghaire has written to the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Ó Laoghaire is our spokesperson on education.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: There are assessment tools that are used in the North.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: But the Taoiseach is not the Minister for Education.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister for Education has the options.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is correct.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is done elsewhere.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Assessment tools.