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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional budgetary allocation related to Covid-19 for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence related services her Department has allocated. [6853/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the person or body that has lead responsibility for the co-ordination of the emergency Covid response to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she has considered the provision of a short-term emergency rent supplement payment to enable women and children in need of immediate relocation due to domestic violence...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to a statement by the Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann on 30 April 2020, if she will progress short-term emergency rent supplement to enable women and children in need of immediate relocation due to domestic violence access safe housing for a period of three months and or the duration of the Covid-19 national...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider her decision not to provide a Covid-19 domestic violence emergency rent supplement payment to enable women and children in need of immediate relocation due to domestic violence to secure safe housing for a period of three months and or the duration of the Covid-19 national emergency. [6861/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will backdate the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment for staff (details supplied) who were due to be paid through the temporary wage subsidy scheme at the end of April 2020 but were not in view of the fact the liquidators will not release the funds for wages. [5630/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Data (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the technical issues will be resolved to enable manual updating of contributions for illness benefit claims. [6860/20]

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (14 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have correspondence from a childcare provider from the Arachas childcare insurance team, dated 7 May. That was the day on which the Government scheme was announced. The correspondence makes two things absolutely clear: that the insurers were in constant contact with the Government for some six weeks and that they set out very clearly that they would not cover Covid instances. They made...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (14 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today we again acknowledge those who have been lost to the virus, now almost 2,000 souls across our island. We extend our sympathies and solidarity to their families, friends and communities. The Taoiseach correctly set out that we will gradually unwind the emergency measures we have asked people to live with in recent weeks. I think we all agree that is the sensible, prudent and only way...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 485. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be released to the HSE disability section for a person (details supplied) to avail of residential services. [4124/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the participant payment for a service (details supplied). [4826/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 693. To ask the Minister for Health if alternative accommodation has been secured for a service (details supplied) in view of the fact the leases are due to expire. [4827/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent HSE staff employed at a service (details supplied) in each of the years 2012 to 2019. [4828/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (13 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 738. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be released for a home care package for a person (details supplied) in order that the person can leave the Mater Hospital. [5049/20]

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach needs to make sure that the €350 is paid.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course, the budget in the North is a subvented budget - the Taoiseach is quite correct - unlike that budgetary parameters that we have here. I am glad to hear the Taoiseach confirm that the payments will be extended beyond June. Will he indicate for how long these payments will be extended? Will he indicate that the level of payment at €350 will remain the same? Will he indicate...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will speak for several minutes, after which I would like a response from the Taoiseach before I continue. I start by sending sympathies to all of the bereaved, extending solidarity to all of the sick and wishing them a full recovery, thanking every worker on the front line and acknowledging the efforts of our people as they live with extraordinary public health restrictions on their lives....

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Covid-19 emergency has presented the people of Europe with an unprecedented crisis and challenge. The virus has attacked our societies, ravaged our economies and tested our communities in previously unimaginable ways. Despite the painful and cruel nature of this pandemic the people of Europe have rallied and demonstrated, as the Taoiseach put it, Europe at its best. There is...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. This is a problem now. The announcement was made of 100,000 tests per week and the presumption is that to do that one must have the necessary capacity. I believe the correct approach is for these 100,000 tests to be real tests, not some notion where we say theoretically we have the capacity to do this. The Taoiseach will know as well as I that from the beginning of...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ba mhaith liom cheist a chur. I would like to ask a question and I also ask that the Taoiseach does not talk down the clock as I would like to speak again. I hope we will have an exchange.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. I will say a few words, ask the Taoiseach to respond and then I will say another few words – kind of like a tennis match.