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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The efforts of people to get past this virus have been recorded. What we need now is the Government to do the right thing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need a full, effective mandatory system of hotel quarantine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government needs to act on this swiftly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: We again find ourselves at a crossroads in our long fight with Covid-19. After three months of living under level 5 restrictions - our third lockdown of this pandemic - people are understandably fed up and many of them are angry and frustrated. Thousands have not seen a day's work in a year. Many have not seen family or friends in months and small businesses are either closing or...

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I acknowledge my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, for moving the Bill. The debate on the Bill has adequately reflected the really important place that Moore Street occupies in the story of our country. The years of neglect and abandonment by the State have not diminished its aura or its legacy for our people, notwithstanding the reality of the dereliction and grime and, as one Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (11 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the €121.3 million in full or in part was allocated in the budget 2021 announcement or in any previous budget further to his announcement on 5 March 2021 for funding for the regeneration of the north-inner city concept area 1. [13774/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (11 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the process by which Dublin City Council will draw down the funding from his Department will be clarified further to his announcement on 5 March 2021 for funding for the regeneration of the north-inner city concept area 1; and the role his Department will have in the delivery of the nine projects for which the funding has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (11 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the €121.3 million allocated to each of the nine regeneration projects for the north-inner city concept area 1 projects announced on 5 March 2021, in tabular form. [13776/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence Policy (11 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the employer groups and trade unions his Department has consulted with on the establishment of a statutory entitlement to paid domestic violence leave in tabular form. [13768/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence Policy (11 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the dates on which the establishment of a statutory entitlement to paid domestic violence leave has been included on the meeting agenda of the monitoring committee of the Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in tabular form. [13769/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence Policy (11 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 158. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department’s scoping of a scheme of domestic violence leave which includes the international models and the identification of best practice is not included in the current list of live studies, reviews and research undertaken or commissioned by him; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence Policy (11 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 159. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the external audit of the way responsibility for domestic, sexual, gender-based violence is segmented across State bodies is not included in his Department’s current list of live studies, reviews and research undertaken or commissioned by him; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (11 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department’s external audit of the way responsibility for domestic, sexual, gender-based violence is segmented across State bodies is not included in the current list of live studies, reviews and research undertaken or commissioned by her; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: What conversation did the Taoiseach have with faith leaders prior to and following the publication of the commission's report into mother and baby homes? What conversations has the Taoiseach had with them in respect of the whole scenario around adoptions, including illegal adoptions and the role of various churches and religious orders in all of this? In the previous round, I put a question...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Taoiseach clarify whether the British Prime Minister had given him notice of his proposal to act unilaterally and outside of the remit of the joint committee in respect of the protocol? Was the Taoiseach given advance notice of that or any indication that was about to happen? If the Taoiseach was, did he share that information with members of the Cabinet? It is imperative that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council meeting held on 25 and 26 February 2021. [13100/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise two issues. First, I share the concerns that have been voiced here around the slowness of the vaccination programme. It is absolutely imperative we have those conversations, not just with London and the British system, but that we explore all avenues in respect of supply. I believe the issues around delivery of vaccines also need to be straightened out. I raised with the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The HSE is proposing to remove in-school speech and language therapy services from the Holy Family School for the Deaf on the Navan Road and, I think, from the deaf schools in Cork and Limerick. Whatever the merits of the new children's disability network teams for provision of these services to the general population, it is beyond belief that consideration would even be given to removing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do they work in banks or in Departments? Will the Taoiseach join me in stating that Davy bringing in a third party to carry out an investigation of these matters is wholly unacceptable and insufficient and that it ought to be the Central Bank that sets the terms for such an investigation and oversees it? We need full transparency here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus.