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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 630. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an apology will be issued to adopted persons who had to grow up in abusive families due to the lack of proper assessments and follow ups. [26923/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 632. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an apology will be issued to natural fathers who wished to raise and-or have contact with their children but were denied the opportunity to do so. [26925/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 633. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an acknowledgement will be issued of the effects on past and future generations of families affected by the institutional system. [26926/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 635. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an apology will be issued for the continued stigma and discrimination imposed on adopted persons and natural parents through the lack of statutory rights and services. [26928/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 628. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an apology will be issued for the incarceration of women and children in mother and baby homes and similar institutions. [26921/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 629. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an apology will be issued to mothers and relatives whose children died in institutions due to abuse and neglect. [26922/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 631. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an apology will be issued for the policies and practices that caused mothers and children to be separated from each other by forcing and coercing women into relinquishing their babies. [26924/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 634. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an apology will be issued to mothers who were denied knowledge of their rights, which prevented them from giving informed consent. [26927/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 743. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects Fitzgibbon Street Garda station in Dublin 1 to re-open. [27217/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the day services for persons with disabilities that remain closed; and the date that each centre is expected to reopen in tabular form. [26329/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 777. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be put in place to address reduced capacity in reopened day services for persons with a disability which is as high as 60% for some services. [26330/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 778. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that will be allocated to the reopening of day services for persons with a disability; if the expenditure will be ring-fenced for this purpose; and if the expenditure will remain separate from the HSE winter plan. [26331/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 956. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 10 September 2020, when the relevant section will be commenced of the Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020 (details supplied); if decisions on the associated funding for the measure have been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27168/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raised the issue of increased utility costs with the Taoiseach earlier this month. During our exchange he gave an undertaking that the Government would engage with Electric Ireland on the matter. I wrote to him subsequently raising the matter again and last week I raised it again to follow up on the outcome of those Government discussions. At that time, the Taoiseach informed me he had...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change. [25393/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to establish a unit in his Department to co-ordinate social dialogue. [23928/20]

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...