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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 345. To ask the Minister for Health if the directors of an organisation (details supplied) will be shareholders with the right to sell or seek a mortgage or financing against any or all of its properties within the holding’s portfolio including the National Maternity Hospital. [12241/22]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Amnesty International report is clear. It is devastating in its clarity. It concludes that Israel perpetrates apartheid. It notes that Israel's civilian administration, military authorities, governmental and quasi-governmental institutions are involved in the enforcement of this system of apartheid against Palestinians. It is as frank and as clear as that. It goes on to say that the...

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (2 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: “Ós í an Ghaeilge an teanga náisiúnta is í an phríomhtheanga oifigiúil í”. Is éin atá ráite i mBunreacht an Stáit seo ach, seachas an díospóireacht inniu, is annamh a tharlaíonn díospóireachtaí lán-Ghaeilge anseo sa Dáil. Níl cead fiú ag Teachtaí Dála...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the One Ocean Summit. [9277/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [11089/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (2 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [9275/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last June I raised the issue of the collapse of the HSE dental services across the State and since then the situation has gotten far worse, to the extent that the Irish Dental Association now believes that there are only 750 dentists actively treating medical card holders. This has led to shocking waiting lists across the State and also to the denial of services to countless people. There...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Last night, we once again witnessed the most harrowing scenes emanating from Ukraine. We have seen the bewildered faces of children and civilian populations fleeing for their safety and lives, spending night after night huddled in air raid shelters in scenes that we never dreamed we would live to witness on our Continent again. Our thoughts are with the people of Ukraine - those who have...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: No one, and certainly no Irish person, will underestimate for a second the absolute determination and courage of the Ukrainian people in defending their homeland, families and lives. No one underestimates for a moment the barbarity of Vladimir Putin's regime and the illegality of this invasion of Ukraine. Neither should any of us doubt the absolute necessity to reassert the primacy of...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ar dtús, ba mhaith liom mo dhlúthpháirtíocht, agus dlúthpháirtíocht Shinn Féin, a léiriú le mhuintir na hÚcráine. Ní féidir le héinne a bhfuil meas acu ar an saoirse, ar cheannasaíocht agus ar an bhféinchinneadh, ach breathnú le huafás ar ghníomhartha na Rúise agus a ceannaire, Vladimir...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress of the implementation of the Strategy Statement 2021 of his Department. [9279/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is a commitment in the strategy statement to focus on building stronger and safer communities through reforms in the areas of housing, policing, community safety and community development. The strategy makes a specific reference to the implementation of policing reforms and to the Dublin north-east inner city initiative. The Taoiseach met with members of the North Inner City Community...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, an agency under the aegis of his Department. [7524/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The council's shared island perspective on mental health, published a few weeks ago, concludes that "there is scope for development, and much value to be found, in increased cross-border co-operation". The research finds that "many aspects of mental health services and promotion are well-suited to cross-border working, such as [for example,] ... on-line supports, mental health promotion, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: One of the core activities of the Department of the Taoiseach is to provide leadership of the Civil Service renewal programme through the Civil Service management board in collaboration with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Last month, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform told an Oireachtas committee of his intention to establish an independent review panel to...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: In 2014, the constitutional convention supported the insertion of the right to housing into the Constitution. This has not happened. We have had delay after delay. The issue has been discussed at length. The Oireachtas housing committee has considered legislation to this effect. Today, we have another delay mechanism. Why are we still waiting for this? Why will the Government not...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody is under any illusion but that Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation are the aggressors in this scenario and they have brazenly breached international law. They have launched an all-out offensive against a sovereign people and they have, as the Taoiseach has correctly said, committed war crimes on the watch of the international community. We need to see an intensification of this...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Ar dtús, ba mhaith liom mo dhlúthpháirtíocht, agus dlúthpháirtíocht Shinn Féin, a léiriú le muintir na hÚcráine. Ba mhaith liom ár dtacaíocht a léiriú leo. Ní féidir le éinne a bhfuil meas acu ar an saoirse ach breathnú le huafás ar ghníomhartha na Rúise san Úcráin....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 125. To ask the Taoiseach the dates on which the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality met from February 2016 to date inclusive. [11632/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 620. To ask the Minister for Health if home help staff employed by services (details supplied) who worked throughout the pandemic will received the Covid-19 recognition payment for frontline healthcare workers [10874/22]