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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide guidance for students that have applied to study at an EU member state university that will be impacted by the decision to delay the issuing leaving certificate calculated grades until September 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18195/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has notified her EU counterparts of the decision to delay issuing the leaving certificate calculated grades until September 2020; if she has proposed plans to accommodate students studying at EU member state universities; if she requested flexibility for students coming from Ireland to study; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to correspondence issued from this Deputy on 29 June 2020 regarding the cancellation of school transport services to a school (details supplied), the reason for the decision; if she has raised the matter with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport; if alternative school transport will be provided; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an English language school (details supplied) is refusing to refund students for courses and examinations cancelled owing to Covid-19; and if the matter will be examined in view of the obligations for a provider to have established policies and procedures for the refund of fees to students in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 930. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE recently amended its public statement of 6 August 2019 in response to the Independent Rapid Review of Specific Issues in the CervicalCheck Screening Programme as a result of a dispute in the accounts of a phone call which took place between a contributor to the report and an official in his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 931. To ask the Minister for Health when persons diagnosed with stage III melanoma will be able to access adjuvant immunotherapy nivolumab pembrolizumab as advised by the National Cancer Control Programme and approved by the HSE for reimbursement in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18151/20]

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sharing time with Deputy Brady. The multi-annual financial framework negotiated every seven years provides member states with the opportunity to point the European Union in a new direction towards a fairer, greener and more equal Europe. The negotiations on this budget have taken place during unprecedented times and they were lengthy. The people of European Union, and indeed the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to address my question in respect of super junior Ministers.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Exactly.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I echo all of those sentiments. I would also like the Taoiseach to answer the question in terms of the allowance for the third super junior Minister. Is it true that this legislation will be brought forward, when will that happen and how on earth does the Taoiseach justify it? I ask the Taoiseach please to answer that question this time.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is no secret that the Taoiseach has been hostile to the idea of rent freezes and bans on evictions. During the election campaign he cited legal advice saying that a rent freeze would not be possible. We all know that this turned out not to be the case. Leaving that aside, I asked the Taoiseach if the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government would agree to briefing Opposition...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too would like to know whether this Government co-ordination Cabinet committee met in advance of last night's Cabinet meeting. With regard to the green list, it was very clear that yesterday the Tánaiste acted as a critic of his own Government, or at the very least of his Government colleague, in telling the media it was wrong to send out mixed messages about international travel. In...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department with the National Economic and Social Council. [16817/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The National Economic and Social Council, NESC, published a paper last month on the implications of Covid-19 for housing in Ireland. The paper argues that the crisis demonstrates the capacity of Government to take swift and decisive action. It adds that the introduction of legislation to ban evictions and rent increases and in securing additional accommodation for homeless households is the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for the answer. It is a very welcome development that the North-South Ministerial Council will meet next week. I hope the value of the forum is now widely understood. It is true to say the North-South Ministerial Council and the all-Ireland infrastructure has been neglected for quite some time. I hope the Taoiseach's engagement with the institutions in the North and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course that ought to be the case. It is no great surprise that Sinn Féin and I are very much seeking to advance the case of an all-Ireland approach. I hope the Taoiseach will take my comment in the spirit in which it is intended because this is a constructive observation. The Taoiseach cannot on one hand look to the North and say we can see what it has done because Britain has a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is a disaster.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I remember.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the First Minister and deputy First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly. [16816/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is about the right people quarantining.