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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1283. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made regarding day services for persons with disabilities further to the publication of a HSE document, entitled the Framework for the Resumption of Adult Disability Day Services; the way in which and when day services for persons with disabilities will open under the framework; the transport solutions that will be provided for persons...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1284. To ask the Minister for Health the dates on which the Traveller health advisory committee met between 2010 and 2020 inclusive in tabular form; the date on which it will next meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15925/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Access to affordable housing was, arguably, the biggest topic during last February's general election campaign. It is little wonder, given that people had endured years of failed policy that left them paying extortionate rents and there was an inability on the part of practically an entire generation to access affordable housing and precious little council housing. This was an approach by a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Be in no doubt that this is the scale of ambition required to deliver affordable housing to our people. I have a question for the Taoiseach. On the basis of what the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government stated last night, why is it that people will have to wait until September to see the new Government's plan for affordable housing? Why is it that the Government will lose so...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----given that the Taoiseach has said he understands the immediacy of the matter and that he has not wasted a minute since coming into office? Why is there such a delay on this? Why face down the fully reasonable and ambitious plan articulated by our housing spokesperson last evening?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will take it when I can.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: When?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know that the Government will not do anything.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today, I want to raise the issue of the Debenhams workers. I was alarmed and disappointed with the Taoiseach's response yesterday when these matters were raised. His response was lacklustre and it was not the type of response that I believe is required from Government. As the Taoiseach will know, the Debenhams workers have been in dispute with their employer for some months now. At the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Here is the problem. The State and the Government have not intervened in the appropriate way to protect these workers. I remind the Taoiseach that since 2015 he has been saying that there needs to be a review and a change to the legislation. In regard to the Clerys situation he said, "The most effective intervention is legislative". At that time, he challenged for a review of the law to...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is because there are precedents that I am raising the issue. I am well aware of the precedents. There is also a precedent for the number of Ministers of State appointed. We need to know not only the structure and rationale for any of the appointments or expansions but also the cost, because the taxpayer is picking up the bill. It is also important to state that there is one...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not dispute, nor does anybody else, that the three relationships the Taoiseach set out are absolutely key. That is at the core of the Good Friday Agreement. That matter is settled. Neither do I believe that anything I have said is partisan. It is a clear enunciation of my long-held and well-known beliefs. Far from excluding the other tradition, we supported Ian Marshall when he...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The resourcing for the unit-----

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and the nature of the work programme that will emerge. All these matters need to be clarified. I have not conjured up out of thin air the idea for a referendum on Irish unity.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is an explicit provision of the Good Friday Agreement and that did not happen today or yesterday. It happened in 1998. There are people now at work and voting who have lived their whole lives in a post-Good Friday Agreement Ireland - thank God - and that is a great credit to all concerned. The idea that we are moving with excessive haste, frankly, does not stack up at all. I turn...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, I adopt a Good Friday Agreement approach.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is fine. I understand that. What about the question on the Tánaiste?

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the 15 minutes allocated to me, I have some remarks to make and some issues I would like to tease out with the Taoiseach. If we could engage in an interactive format and the Taoiseach could respond, that would be very helpful. Today is the first occasion on which Deputy Martin, as Taoiseach, presented himself for Leaders' Questions and also the Revised Estimates. In building for the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits to reducing the waiting time for assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005. The Taoiseach is aware that parents of children with additional needs are currently before the courts in a bid to obtain this assessment of need for their children within the legally set timeframe, which, as he is also aware, is three months. I will not comment on...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: In that case, we are of one mind. We all recognise that those women and couples who have had children in this period have faced very considerable difficulties and stress without all of the normal supports that new parents generally enjoy when they bring home their newborn. This is a very straightforward request. The Taoiseach should not hide behind a veil of complexity. The simple...