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

Mary Lou McDonald: I also extend my sympathies with the family of the late Noel Treacy. A decade ago, Fine Gael and the Labour Party removed the right to retire on a State pension at 65 years. Over the last two years, the Government has plotted and planned to ratchet the pension age up to 66, 67 and 68 years. We in Sinn Féin remain absolutely committed to people's right to retire if they so wish at the...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Well then, release it.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Pardon me?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Why has it not what?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach needs to tell them again-----

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

Mary Lou McDonald: They have not done it.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Tell them that.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Does he want me to go and tell them?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Does he want me to do his job?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I am happy to. I will do your job any day.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Well then, do not ask me questions.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I answer questions, you see.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Ava Cahill is 11. She is from Tallaght in Dublin and she has spina bifida. She has been waiting for more than a year and a half for corrective surgery. As a result of this wait, Ava lives in considerable and daily pain because her feet have turned in on themselves and her condition is worsening. Her mother says that it is increasingly difficult for Ava to hold her splint in place. She...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should not play the Covid card. As far back as 2014, Temple Street hospital issued a damning report, setting out the failures in service for children with spina bifida. To this day, these children are still failed. I am afraid that it is an issue of funding. A request for €5 million of funding has been with the Minister-----

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

Mary Lou McDonald: -----for two years for Cappagh hospital.

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,...