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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: When the announcement was made about the appointment of additional special advisers for the Ministers of State there was something of a public outcry, not because people do not understand why Governments and Ministers need good advice but because the Government was, at the same time, moving to cut the pandemic unemployment payment. It did not recalibrate the payment but cut it. I want to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I object to nine questions being grouped together. I raised four different, absolutely distinct areas in my questions and would like to register my objection and ask that it does not happen again. Question No. 4 concerns plans for public service reform to be driven by the Taoiseach's Department. I particularly want to raise again two long-running pay and pension issues. The community...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for public services reform to be driven by his Department. [28337/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [28338/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that addresses matters relating to justice will next meet. [28339/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that addresses matters relating to the arts will next meet. [28556/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today is day one of level 3 across the State and we have news of significant outbreaks of Covid-19 in nursing homes in Portlaoise and in Donegal. What happened in our nursing homes last spring was a scandal that cannot be repeated. Are our nursing homes prepared now for this second wave of Covid-19? Is there a plan and, if so, can the Taoiseach share it with us? I heard with great...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appeal to the Taoiseach that we would work together on this issue, all of us - the Government and the Opposition - to ensure that disability services get the adequate funding that they require in the budget next week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is an absolute desperation in the experiences that I have shared with the House. The forgotten people of this pandemic are "on the ledge", "on the floor", "on our knees". This is how citizens with disabilities, their families, carers and service providers feel. The moneys that have been allocated are just not enough. I raise this, not to have an argument with the Taoiseach but also...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appeal to the Taoiseach that we do not see again crumbs from the table when budget day comes. The case has been made to the HSE. The business cases, as they are called, have been lodged. A very full explanation of what is needed has been made. I ask the Taoiseach, as Head of Government, on all of our behalf, to make sure that on budget day those very resources are delivered.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Covid has had a devastating impact on services for people with disabilities and dementia. Many people who were receiving a full week's support prior to the pandemic are now only receiving one or two days of services per week. The sector has warned that this is because it does not have the additional funding to restore services to full capacity with the Covid protocols in place. Last night,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 216. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for nursing home providers in the CHO9 area to innovate and support residents and their families during periods of enhanced Covid-19 protective measures while being cognisant of mental and physical well-being, remaining person-centred, ensuring rights are upheld and not infringed upon in a disproportionate manner and following public health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his plans to introduce legislation enabling pharmacists to administer off-site vaccinations in view of media reports; when the legislation will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29070/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: By stopping all other activity in the services.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach seems to have difficulty even accepting publicly or saying out loud that the Government did in fact cut the pandemic unemployment payment. We know it was initially envisaged as a 12-week intervention. We know now that this was not the case. We know this is a protracted period of a public health and an economic crisis for workers across the State. The cut that was made has to...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It should certainly be higher than €203.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy McDonald is avoiding nothing.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should not mislead the Dáil. That is entirely untrue. That is inaccurate. That is wrong information.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I reiterate the point just made. We now have access to the letter written from NPHET to the Minister for Health, which found its way into the public domain; I do not know how. Perhaps the Taoiseach knows but I do not know how it found its way into the public domain on Sunday evening. It was private correspondence. In any event, that is all we have. The production and publication of data...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was talking about Philip Nolan's-----