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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 616. To ask the Minister for Health the position persons with disabilities are placed in the scheduled roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccination programme. [2702/21]

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá mo chuid smaointe inniu leo siúd a chaith am i dtithe na máthar agus na leanaí. Inniu, cuimhnímid orthu go léir. Is córas drochíde agus díghrádaithe a bhí ann. Tá an Taoiseach tar éis leithscéal a ghabháil ar son an Stát, ach tá na chéad chéimeanna eile ríthábhachtach. Yesterday...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Children with special educational needs were among those who suffered most during the first lockdown. Despite the best efforts of everyone, including staff, parents and the children and young people themselves, there was regression. The disruption to routine and lack of social contact is very traumatic for them. The parents of children with special educational needs were distraught and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am under absolutely no illusions, nor are the Taoiseach's officials, that the proposed shared equity loan scheme will have the effect of forcing up prices and saddling those young people and working families to whom he refers with even more debt. It seems clear that Fianna Fáil has learned nothing from the past and that we are back to the bad old days of developer-led housing policy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Cuirim fáilte roimh an gach duine. Yesterday was a difficult day right across the island. There were record numbers of deaths were North and South and it is only appropriate to express our sympathy to those who have been bereaved. The mother and baby homes report was also published. We will have an opportunity to discuss that report in due course today. For now, I wish to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (13 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the refurbishment of the General Post Office, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 will commence; and the intended use of the refurbished space on completion of the works to be overseen by the Office of Public Works. [1343/21]

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sharing time with Deputy Brady. It has been said many times in this House that we have reached crunch time or the endgame in Brexit negotiations. All of those moments were indeed critical and they were important junctures in Britain's Tory-induced withdrawal from the European Union. However, here we are, in the final days of 2020, on the final straight. While there has been a great...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I reiterate the call for preparation for an orderly constitutional transition. Next year, we will mark a century of the partition of our island. My God, we know the heavy cost that has been carried by our people, North and South, for that disastrous, catastrophic event. We have an opportunity now to heal and rebuild and we need to plan for that. I encourage the Taoiseach to raise again...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the case of Shane O'Farrell. This December will be the tenth Christmas for the O'Farrell family without Shane. As the Taoiseach will know, the circumstances that led to his death have been very well voiced in the Dáil and Seanad in recent years. In 2018, the Dáil voted in favour of the immediate establishment of a public inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have previously discussed the increased number of people experiencing homeless who have died on our streets this year. The Taoiseach has stated by way of response that unprecedented levels of resources are being targeted at the issue of homelessness. I suggest that it is the level of homelessness itself that is unprecedented. The State still does not fully recognise or record the scale...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the role of the social policy unit in his Department. [41797/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of public service, justice and policing reform division of his Department. [43138/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the Debenhams workers again. Last night, they received proposals from the chairman of the Labour Court. Those proposals are massively disappointing for the workers and will be very little comfort to them. Many of the workers spent years working for Debenhams and they have protested for 251 days to get a fair and reasonable redundancy settlement. They are worn out,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will the Taoiseach bring forward legislation to ensure that this sorry scenario does not play out again? We have had Clerys and Debenhams.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fact is that workers have been left cruelly exposed by this Government and the previous Fine Gael and Fine Gael and Labour Party Governments. All of them have let these workers down.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government can change the law.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is indulging in the tried and tested strategy of his predecessors. Not only is he trying to explain away the housing crisis, he is trying to live in an extraordinary world of make-believe where there is no crisis. However, the crisis is real. I have rehearsed previously with the Taoiseach the fact that average rents in Dublin are now above €2,000. The average rent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The lack of affordable and secure homes is the biggest problem facing our people for the past decade. We have a generation whose lives have been defined by this housing crisis. When the Taoiseach came to power six months ago, he said that his Government would be the Government to sort out housing, but that promise has fallen flat. Rents remain sky-high, houses remain unaffordable and the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Communications (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent phone call with the UK Prime Minister. [41795/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (16 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council meeting of 10 and 11 December 2020. [43541/20]