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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A on the economy last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [18734/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee F, national security, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [17458/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [18733/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits to providing adequate resources to reduce hospital waiting lists. This week, a woman needing hospital treatment received a letter telling her that she had been put on a waiting list of in excess of 175 weeks for an appointment at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar. That is more than three years. This woman is ill and potentially suffering from a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----a crisis in which more than 500,000 people have been left waiting?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: To Belfast.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am simply reiterating the words of the Taoiseach's own Minister, who regards this co-living concept as "exciting". As a Minister he has championed it and recommends it as an exciting prospect. I think he is targeting this bizarre message at young professionals in particular. This is just a glamourised form of tenement living, with a boxroom no larger than the size of a parking space, a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach and his Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, have been found out. This cock-and-bull story around co-living simply amplifies the scale of their failure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: So says the Taoiseach, having just launched a personal attack.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Over the past number of weeks, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has championed the concept of co-living as a solution to the rental crisis. He has gone so far as to say that people should be excited by his co-living plan. One example of this exciting plan is being developed in Dún Laoghaire by Bartra Capital Property Group, and involves 208...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Digital Strategy Implementation (21 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the national digital strategy being led by his Department. [16454/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (21 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a new covenant between church and State. [18732/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to set down the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department in 2018; and the number of requests granted, partially granted and refused. [17456/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Leadership Team met on 14 May 2019 to consider additional information submitted by the manufacturer of the drug Spinraza; and when the team will make a final decision on the reimbursement of the drug based on this information. [21754/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 164. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the recent sale of a former mother and baby home (details supplied); and the action she will take to exclude potential burial sites from the sale following the recent finding of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes that an organisation failed to provide evidence that infants were...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last night, the House debated Second Stage of Sinn Féin's Bill to provide for the constitutional right of every citizen to adequate, secure and affordable housing, a key recommendation of the Constitutional Convention. Fine Gael and its partners, Fianna Fáil, have chosen to say no to that proposal and both parties have stated that they will not support the legislation when it is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Things are tetchy between the partners in government today. Yesterday it was announced that the European Commission, under the stewardship of the Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, is to undertake a formal antitrust investigation into Insurance Ireland's data pooling system. I welcome that announcement. It is a decision which will be welcomed by motorists across the State...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has confirmed what we all know, namely, that insurance premiums having skyrocketed by 70% between the years 2013 and 2016 are only now moderating. We all know that drivers, particularly younger drivers, have been locked out of obtaining insurance for a long time. The Taoiseach talks a good game but his claim that this has been a priority for Government is at odds with the...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am proud to stand here this evening and support this Bill. The Bill is intended to provide all citizens with a constitutional right to adequate, secure and affordable housing and to give effect to the decision by 80% of participants in the Constitutional Convention that such a right should be enshrined in Bunreacht na hÉireann. Providing for the constitutional right to a home will...