Results 321-340 of 21,383 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that neither he nor any Government Member is up to the task.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: But I did refer to the €430,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about the €430,000?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Where is the Minister?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have had the most expensive bike shed in the world, the €1 million security hut and the €9 million on phone pouches so people already know that the Taoiseach's Government is a serial waster of public money but this one really takes the biscuit. It has actually gone to the trouble of making up a job with a salary of €430,000 simply to give the appearance of Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The outrageous salary the Taoiseach proposes to pay his new housing tsar is €430,000. It is nearly half a million euro - an astonishing amount of taxpayers' money for the salary of just one person. It is more than the Taoiseach's very generous salary. It is even more than the President of the United States is paid. It is equivalent to the starting salary of 11 new nurses, 11 new...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the promised new school building for a school (details supplied). [18898/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1045. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 304 of 20 March 2025, the reason an applicant (details supplied) was denied leave in 2012 and therefore refused incremental credit despite a circular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20835/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Irish Sign Language (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1780. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 (ISL) within her Department and its associated public bodies, including details of any ISL strategies that have been developed; and if no ISL strategy has been developed to date, if she will outline the reason for this and any plans...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2134. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown, by year of the total number of people who have accessed the services of the National Counselling Services from 2020 to date, in tabular form. [19474/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2294. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the Health Service Executive review of demand and capacity for the national counselling service referred to at Action 19.6 of the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. [20134/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2295. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish the Health Service Executive review of demand and capacity for the national counselling service referred to at Action 19.6 of the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. [20135/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2296. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the 'health research on the future needs of former residents' referred to at Action 19.5 of the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. [20136/25]

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: As has been said, nobody wins in a trade war but we know who loses the most. Workers and families carry the can in the form of increased prices, threats to jobs and livelihoods and hits to their incomes. Trade wars are not good for the prosperity of ordinary people. That is the reality but this is the prospect we now face. It is unprecedented to use blanket tariffs to force broader trade...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh na mná ón Ríocht. There is a group of women in the Gallery from an Ríocht, the Kingdom of Kerry. Fáilte. In May 1997, Sean Brown, a father of six, was abducted and murdered by the Loyalist Volunteer Force gang while locking up the gates of Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAA club in County Derry. Sean's courageous wife, Bridie, and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government knows this. Yet, that treatment and service are not available.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why is the Government instead offering treatments that the experts have told it will fall short and will fail? I appeal to the Taoiseach to listen to the voice of this young woman and those of the other women whose lives have been devastated by the failure to provide them with the care they need here in Ireland.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: So many of them are now travelling. That is the most damning evidence of the Government's failure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know who the Taoiseach is listening to.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to read to the Taoiseach a letter from Nikita Clarke, who is from Dublin and who I met recently. She suffers from suspected endometriosis: Thank you for taking time out of your day to read this letter. Please listen carefully, this is not easy to talk or write about. I am 18-years-old and instead of getting my driver's licence, picking out a Debs dress, studying for my leaving cert,...