Results 3,221-3,240 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to begin monitoring the wages paid to apprentices in the consortia-led model given that apprentices are exempt from the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 and SOLAS only monitors the wages paid to craft apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56323/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide complete lists of all consortia-led apprenticeships including the details of the education providers and accrediting agency, duration and total enrolment figures in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56324/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average waiting time for craft apprentices to access off-the-job training; the number of apprentices waiting to access same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56325/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 230. To ask the Minister for Health if further consideration has been undertaken regarding a system for medical exemption to the EU Digital COVID Certificate following recent discussions with the National Public Health Emergency Team (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56316/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [47865/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Policing Reform (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [47864/21]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Insurance companies in Ireland are still ripping off their customers. The industry pocketed huge savings during the pandemic. In 2020, the cost of claims to insurance companies fell by 20%, but the price of premiums for customers fell by only 7% and the average rebate was a mere €17. The cost of claims is set to fall again this year but it is very clear insurance companies cannot be...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: As ever with the Taoiseach's Government, it is a case of too little and too late. The middle of November is not the time to produce the winter emergency plan, with the greatest of respect to all involved. That work should have been done in the summer. The facts are that the mistake made at budget time, where not one additional acute inpatient or community bed beyond what had been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Rather than the Taoiseach simply expressing interest or concern in this, it is his job to ensure this is sorted and these bottlenecks caused by excessive bureaucracy can be cut.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is a lack of capacity in hospitals.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: I reiterate to the Taoiseach that the funds and resources must be made available. He has failed in that regard. It is astonishing stuff.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is there an example?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sorry, who was-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should be clear. Which hospital was it?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Which hospital?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The need to build capacity in our hospitals has never been more urgent. Decades of bad government policy meant that our health service was at breaking point before we ever heard of Covid-19. Now we face the most serious health emergency of a lifetime. However, despite what the past 18 months have taught us, there is a real absence of urgency and planning from the Government. We need more...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Then you have not been listening.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Well I think you are wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Illiterate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is nothing wrong with our literacy.