Results 4,261-4,280 of 21,131 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to deal with two things. On the work envisaged in the establishment of this unit in the Department of the Taoiseach, I understand the models of sectoral engagement are different from the old social partnership process. I ask the Taoiseach to confirm that for me. There is no doubt that workers, businesses and all of society face sudden and unprecedented challenges. The public health...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about County Monaghan?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has no answer. It would be nice to share it.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the very real sense of abandonment that citizens with disabilities and their families, carers and service providers feel. I asked him to commit to ring-fencing the necessary funding to ensure that services get back up and running to capacity. The Taoiseach cited, of course, the Covid-19 protocols, which I recognise. More importantly, the services, the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: On a point of order, the Taoiseach has responded in the manner he has. I just have to say-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know that we do not have a fact-checking facility for the Oireachtas but the facts that I set out about the wage subsidy scheme and the pandemic unemployment payment-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----are accurate and I would like that recorded on the record of the Dáil. I do not appreciate being accused of laying untruths before the House. That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, has withdrawn from the Low Pay Commission. Its general secretary, Patricia King, stated that it did so because the commission was not prepared to go beyond an increase of 1% in the minimum wage for 2021. A 1% increase would mean an increase of 10 cent an hour for the workers affected - the thousands of low-paid workers who have kept us going during...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The only thing that is extraordinary is the Taoiseach's extraordinary lack of fairness and his even more extraordinary lack of self-awareness in this regard. Let us rehearse the facts again. The Government's new wage subsidy scheme excludes 153,000 workers who earn €151 a week, or less. They are not eligible and are excluded from the scheme. That hurts those workers, it hurts their...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a station at Ballybough to service Ballybough, Croke Park, East Point and north Docklands will be considered in the DART extension programme. [25694/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff from each of the CHOs redeployed from their contracted role to provide Covid-19 swabbing functions in test centres each month from May to September 2020, in tabular form. [25817/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE dental staff in CHO 9 that have been redeployed to provide Covid-19 swabbing functions in test centres in each month from May to September 2020, in tabular form. [25818/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 202. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE addiction staff in CHO 9 that have been redeployed to provide Covid-19 swabbing functions in test centres in each month from May to September 2020, in tabular form. [25819/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE disability staff in CHO 9 that have been redeployed to provide Covid-19 swabbing functions in test centres in each month from May to September 2020, in tabular form. [25843/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE primary care staff in CHO 9 that have been redeployed to provide Covid-19 swabbing functions in test centres in each month from May to September 2020, in tabular form. [25844/20]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I have an answer on disability services please?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Taoiseach committing to ring-fencing the funding? The providers have sent him a figure.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are in correspondence with the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [25001/20]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I raise the very deep sense of abandonment felt by citizens with disabilities, their families, carers and service providers. The Government has yet to allocate the necessary additional funding for disability day services to enable them to deal with the impact of Covid-19. We are now six months into this pandemic. The disability services submitted their funding requirements to the HSE in...