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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 30. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet [2681/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raise with the Taoiseach the remarks made by the US President - or I should say the threat made by the US President - in respect of the Gaza Strip, in which he openly countenanced the mass expulsion of the Palestinian population and the annexation and seizure of those lands and their development, he seemed to suggest, into some form of Riviera. I would like the Taoiseach to agree with me...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [2680/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. That is a very generous allocation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Access to general practitioners is under pressure right across the State but particularly in some areas of very grave disadvantage, one of which is Summerhill in Dublin 1. For the past eight years the Summerhill Family Practice operated by the charity GP Care For All, has provided 2,632 people with GP services in the north inner city. That service is under threat because of Revenue rules....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The parents of children with special needs face a constant battle to find school places for their children. The idea that any child is forced into a lottery for the chance of getting a school place is unthinkable, and yet it is happening. The child's future is down to the luck of the draw. The child whose number does not come up is left behind. The mother of Jay Meehan from Waterford is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is unacceptable. It will not fly. I am on my feet to make that clear to the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Who is responsible for that?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The ultimate check and balance in the Oireachtas is, of course, that the Opposition holds the Government to account. Central to this are slots for Leaders Questions and Priority Questions that are the Opposition's opportunity to hold the Taoiseach and his Government to account, yet they persist in holding that logic on its head, the most basic premise upon which we carry out our democratic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Says the man who does not build consistent levels of social housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let us do that then, will we? If the Taoiseach is citing Fitzgibbon Street Garda station as an example of efficiency and delivery, I am afraid he has chosen a bad example. It took years and years to be delivered. I resisted-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It did. It is in my constituency.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I resisted in my opening remarks citing the children's hospital, but I now feel moved to do so as it is the example of the type of incompetence and waste we have seen writ large. It all has its foundations in a Government culture of utter disregard for public money, which is reflected in the response the Taoiseach gave. He said that all of this is incomprehensible, not acceptable and not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked whether this matter was raised at Cabinet.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to know what the Taoiseach and the Government will do-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----about this and other instances of waste like this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Another day and another revelation of Government waste of public money. Over the weekend, it emerged that in 2017 the National Gallery of Ireland purchased a scanner at a cost to the taxpayer of nearly €125,000. The scanner has never been used because a suitable room could not be found to accommodate it. This equipment, which cost the people €125,000, has sat idle for eight...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 169. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [7558/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 171. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [7557/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the issue of staffing levels at the children’s hospital. A serious letter has been written by all 12 surgeons at the department of paediatric surgery and urology at Children’s Health Ireland. I believe it has gone to the Minister for Health. In this letter, the surgeons outline bizarrely that the plans for opening the new children’s hospital will see it...