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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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 290. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on statutory funding streams which may be available to a stand-alone counselling service in Tullamore (details supplied) with charitable status which supports people in the community to maintain positive mental health by providing effective and accessible counselling and psychotherapy services. [38243/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 307. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the inclusion of ozempic in the drug payment scheme for purposes other than management of type 2 diabetes; if he has considered this in the context of its application in managing patients with insulin resistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38429/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 308. To ask the Minister for Health if semaglutide is licenced and approved for use for insulin resistance or weight management or any other purpose in the State; if it is approved or under consideration for reimbursement in any context other than type 2 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38430/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA site visits to County Louth for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 respectively; the location in County Louth where these visits took place, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38101/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown for listed IDA client companies and IDA-backed client companies with operations in County Louth for each of the years 2020-2024, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38102/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: As I rehearsed with the Minister earlier, the Government, and he, as Minister for public expenditure, are presiding over the building of the most expensive hospital in the world. Of course they have also presided over the construction of what I imagine has to be most expensive bicycle shed in the world, at a cost to the taxpayer of €336,000, paid out by the OPW, which comes under his...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. I reiterate the concerns raised by Deputy Paul Murphy earlier today in respect of the carpet-bombing of Lebanon, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the brutality and violence instigated by Israel in the West Bank. We need a statement from the Taoiseach and also from the Tánaiste. We need an opportunity for questions and answers in respect of weapons of war passing...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----we need both the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste who, whether wittingly or otherwise, gave wrong information to the Dáil on this matter. This Dáil was misled. We will take it that it was unwittingly so but nonetheless it happened and that has to be corrected also.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Having signed weak contracts with very weak levers available to the board-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----the Government has sat back and allowed this farce and fiasco to deepen.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yet again, we see not just a grossly incompetent Government, but one that is entirely unprepared to take responsibility, much less to be accountable, for anything. It is the board's fault. It is the contractor's fault. Of course, it is Sinn Féin's fault. How could it not be? Let me recite this again. On 17 occasions, the completion date has fallen through. There is an overspend...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The debacle surrounding the construction of the national children's hospital continues. At the weekend, we learned that the hospital's completion date will be missed yet again. We are now looking at a completion date of 2026, and we cannot even be sure of that. A report from KPMG published this morning calls into question whether the hospital will be ready to open even when it is built....