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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1584. To ask the Minister for Health the way Covid-19 vaccines will be provided to group 4 persons who have a disability and are not in a residential setting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18345/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1585. To ask the Minister for Health the way Covid-19 vaccines will be provided to group 4 persons who are housebound; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18346/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (21 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2009. To ask the Minister for Health if he has paused the roll-out of the Progressing Disability Service programme in its current format and will ensure that no special school including a school (details supplied) will lose any onsite provision including speech and language therapy. [19554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2189. To ask the Minister for Health if the national immunisation advisory committee advisory group on cardiovascular patients has considered the HSE national heart programme submission which recommends that patients under 70 years of age waiting for cardiovascular surgery be placed in the vaccine allocation group four; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20083/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (1 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Special Education has completed and submitted its policy advice on education provision in special classes and special schools first commissioned in September 2018; the advice provided on the provision of reading schools for children with dyslexia; and when she will publish the policy advice. [17793/21]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The meeting of the European Council which took place last week was a crucial moment in the European Union's battle with Covid-19. Over the course of the past year, the virus has wreaked havoc across member states. The economic and social devastation caused by this pandemic has been severe. The people of the EU and Ireland have experienced months of hardship. They have endured lockdown and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [13102/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too refer to the plans for a safe return of health services, as published by the HSE. I specifically focus on cancer services, which will not be fully restored until the end of the year, with 90% scheduled by the end of September. All of this is reliant on a successful vaccination roll-out. We cannot afford to miss these targets. The prioritisation of early diagnosis and screening...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I may have skipped the queue as I believe Deputy Paul Murphy is next.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is just to keep us right. I thank the Deputy. There is a move to age-based vaccination and the Taoiseach drew a parallel with the North. Sadly, I wish we were in the same position as those in the North, where vaccination is moving ahead at pace. Of course, the Taoiseach is aware there is an occupational element to that scheme. It is why, for example, carers got priority and have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [15524/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: In July last year, my colleague, Deputy Quinlivan, was told by the Taoiseach that he hoped to give a timeline for the rolling out of a new redress scheme for the victims of historical abuse in day schools. I am sure, or at least I hope, that the Taoiseach is as frustrated as I am that the Department of Education's review of the ex gratiascheme appears to be stalled. That frustration is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [15523/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise the change the Government has made to the vaccination plan, as announced yesterday evening. This is both a huge and an astonishing decision that was made without prior notice and, it seems, without any consultation with the groups of front-line workers who will be affected by it. It has come as a great shock and has caused great anger for special needs assistants, SNAs,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not sure that it is appropriate for a Government Deputy to speak, mar dhea, on behalf of everybody in the House when it is abundantly clear that the will of the House is for statements from the Ministers, including previous occupants of the Department, to establish facts, publish the review report to which the Taoiseach referred earlier, for us to have full disclosure of the facts and to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: As I said, on the very day this programme setting out these shocking revelations aired, families were before the court bringing the State to account for a failure to provide places for their children at school. Let me repeat my branding of the practice of compiling and holding files and dossiers on children with autism and their wider families by the HSE, the Department of Health or any...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach relies heavily on the report that he cites. Can he confirm that this report will, in fact, be published? I thank the Ceann Comhairle for turning off my microphone.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked three specific questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Friday is World Autism Day. This marks a moment when we should be focused on raising awareness of the challenges facing those on the autistic spectrum and discussing how best to support them. Instead, we find ourselves discussing again how badly the State treats and fails children with additional needs. Yesterday, we heard the harrowing story of a seven-year-old called Lexi Forde, whose...

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will be sharing some time with Deputy David Cullinane. At the beginning of this debate the Minister for Health described family carers as the "backbone" of caring in our State. I will put on record some of the words of the backbone of care in our State: I am so fed up and worn-out from fighting for the basic rights of my daughter. With so little support, I live in a constant state of...