Results 5,101-5,120 of 21,131 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Concerns around the budgetary position post Brexit will have been raised even more loudly by those who saw the statement in the weekend's edition of The Sunday Timesby Boris Johnson, potentially the British Prime Minister, that he would withhold the £39 billion in outstanding British contributions to the EU budget for 2019 and 2020 unless the EU agreed what he called more favourable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I suggest that the Taoiseach prioritise a visit to Edinburgh and that he very speedily ramp up the conversation with the Scottish Government and the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, in particular. The stance adopted by the Scottish Government on fishing and fishing rights around Rockall is, frankly, bewildering. Scotland wishes to remain within the European Union, and that position has been...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Report and Final Stages of the National Minimum Wage (Protection of employee Tips) Bill 2017, introduced by Sinn Féin, are due to be held in the Seanad tomorrow afternoon. This is important legislation which would make it illegal for an employer to withhold or deduct employees' tips and would require businesses to display their tipping policy so customers know how tips are distributed....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: A cut of this nature runs against the grain of Sláintecare and the stated intention to keep people in the community. It runs against the ambition of dealing with delayed discharges and overcrowding in our hospitals. It makes eminent sense for the Taoiseach, as Head of Government, to go back to HSE management and tell them that the money has to be found and that 6,000 people or more...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to make a commitment to the people he has commended so warmly that he will go back to the HSE and that the money will be found for home help hours.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has not addressed the central point of my question. It has been confirmed by the HSE that between now and early November, there will be a reduction or a restriction on the number of new or additional hours allocated. As I said in the course of my question, this comes at a time when more than 6,000 people are on a waiting list for home care supports. Very often, as the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I congratulate Deputies Clare Daly, Wallace, Fitzgerald and Kelleher on their election to the European Parliament. This is national carer's week. It is a week in which we acknowledge and recognise the tens of thousands of carers throughout the State for the contribution that they make to people's lives, to families and to communities. We can safely say that they are everyday heroes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the reduction of special needs assistants in a school (details supplied). [23373/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Safety (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 841. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will implement the recommendations of a report (details supplied). [24149/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Safety (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 842. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a list of child contact centres in tabular form. [24150/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Safety (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 843. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reinstate funding to a project (details supplied); and the reason the funding was withdrawn from same. [24151/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (29 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent informal meeting of the European Council. [21571/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke to the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May. [21569/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagement with the US congressional delegation that visited Ireland. [21570/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Two weeks ago, the Minister voted against a Sinn Féin Bill to provide for a referendum to enshrine the right to housing in the Constitution, as was recommended by the Constitutional Convention. As per the programme for Government, that recommendation was referred to the Oireachtas committee on housing, which also recommended that the right to housing be enshrined in the Constitution....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Cathal Berry was quite damning; he said that there is a sense of absolute betrayal and that it is palpable and visceral. He added that he has not seen anything even remotely like this in his 23 years of service. The Minister has described a process of pay restoration. She seems to take the view that the Defence Forces personnel are getting a fair and sustainable deal, when all of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Speaking on "Morning Ireland" earlier, the former head of the Army Ranger Wing, Commandant Cathal Berry, stated that the Defence Forces are being dismantled and demoralised as a result of Government policy. The facts bear that out. There is, in the Defence Forces, as in other areas of the public service, a recruitment and retention crisis. The number of serving personnel has dropped below...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 427. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 16 May 2019, her views on the advice from a religious order (details supplied) that burial sites at a site are to remain in the ownership of the order; and if she has raised the recent finding of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes that the religious order failed to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (28 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rationale behind the income limits to qualify for social housing; and the reason this has resulted in a €6,000 difference in the amount a person or family can earn to qualify for social housing in counties Waterford and Tipperary. [22743/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (28 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the establishment of the task force for Tipperary town following the appointment of an independent chairperson in March 2019; the State agencies appointed to the taskforce; and the budget allocated to same. [22768/19]