Results 381-400 of 21,096 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Carers do extraordinary work all across Ireland. They show incredible dedication to vulnerable loved ones they care for: parents who care for children and young adults with complex needs, those who look after their elderly parents and those who care for family members with disabilities. Caring is work done with love, but it is work. It is 24-7 every day and every night non-stop. Carers do...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: They will continue to pay big fees, continue to search for spaces that do not exist, and continue to be stressed today and worried about the future. Our plan would deliver the change they need, not just soundbites. It is a plan to make childcare affordable at €10 a day per child by next September, a plan to deliver early years educators and childcare professionals the pay increase...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have heard the Government oscillate between self-congratulatory backslapping and defensive, self-righteous attack rhetoric, neither of which is grounded in any sense of reality. I notice the Taoiseach is not here to participate in this debate. That is a first in my recollection. Perhaps, after all the bragging and hot air, the Taoiseach cannot present himself to stand by and stand over...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is actually mental.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, homelessness and dereliction. First-time buyer-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Fianna Fáil way-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Just like in Gaza.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The clinicians give the clinical advice. I am not asking the Taoiseach for clinical advice. Why would I?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am suggesting nothing of the sort.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I kindly ask the Taoiseach, when I raise the issue of a 13-year-old boy with a 120o curvature of his spine who has waited five years for his surgery, not to insult him or his mother, Keara - do not mind me - with smart alec, slick responses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: This child has waited five years. This child is suffering. This child can be treated in the United States. The clinicians have told Keara, his mother, that four weeks of halo-gravity traction treatment, which she cannot access here, and then another four weeks will be needed, at least, for the surgery, which will be complex but those surgeons can do it. She needs clarity. She has been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The child is 13. Boys who are 13 years old do not want to be mentioned on the floor of the Dáil. I know because I reared one myself. The last thing he wants is his name mentioned here. Yet his mother is so desperate now that she felt moved to put up a video of him and to ask that this matter be raised directly with the Taoiseach. He can get the treatment he needs in the United States.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: She needs to know when they are travelling. The people in the United States need confirmation that the resources are available and the bill will be paid.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am challenging the Taoiseach because if I were the Taoiseach, I would sort this out.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sort it out today for that family.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It has been-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The parents of children with scoliosis and spina bifida who have been waiting years for operations would have been listening intently to the Taoiseach's budget yesterday. They would have been listening in the hope that he might finally hear their calls for action and deliver the investment and change that their children so desperately need so that they might get their surgeries to end the...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a family reunification application in respect of a family (details supplied). [39421/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (1 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the consultation that has taken place to date between Department officials and the Office of the Attorney General following the Supreme Court judgement made on 22 January 2024 relating to the entitlement of an unmarried cohabitant to a widow’s, widower’s and surviving civil...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (1 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will advise on the situation of a person (details supplied). [38766/24]