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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Child Abuse Reports (28 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will publish the United Nations special rapporteur report on the sale and sexual exploitation of children in Ireland. [14546/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke to the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [10784/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the public consultations under way or planned by his Department for 2019. [10478/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the EU-League of Arab States summit. [10783/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits to targeted improvements in public services with a particular focus on disability issues. It also commits to ensuring that transport service provision for people with disabilities is fit for purpose and consistent with their needs, yet Bus Éireann's brand new, state-of-the-art city buses are actually less accessible for wheelchair users than the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ah, look after the landlords.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I join the Taoiseach in extending our sympathy to and expressing our solidarity with Laura's family and friends as they remember her today. I am also sorry to hear of the passing of John Browne. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. Yesterday the United Nations' special rapporteur for adequate housing lists, Leilani Farha, issued a damning condemnation of the Government's record...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's position could not be more ideological. He is blinded by his own ideology and prevented from doing the very obvious, common-sense, pragmatic and necessary things by a fierce ideology that insists on the market sorting it out and that the State and the Government sitting on the sidelines as observers, crossing their fingers and hoping for the best in trying to talk the issue...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----by my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, to prevent landlords from seeking vacant possession. To translate it into real English, it means preventing landlords from casting families into homelessness in order that they can sell on properties.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am appealing to the Government to support that measure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is not building houses.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 260. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received the interim report of the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes on burials; and when the report will be published. [14305/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is all right. I want to place on the record, on my own behalf and on behalf of Sinn Féin, our sincere and heartfelt sympathies to the families and friends of those killed and injured during the horrific attack in Christchurch and to offer the people of New Zealand our condolences at what is an incredibly difficult time. My questions relate to the strategic threat assessment...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee F (national security) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [12014/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B (Social Policy and Public Services) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [10479/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last Friday the HSE published Dr. Gabriel Scally's progress report on the implementation of recommendations made in the CervicalCheck scoping inquiry. It should be acknowledged that Dr. Scally has said he is encouraged by the progress made to date. However, there are a number of issues raised in his report that warrant our attention. He notes that a significant number of actions are due...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Scéimeanna Teanga (26 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the Irish language scheme of his Department. [10477/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Scéimeanna Teanga (26 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach as ucht a chuid fhreagra. Tá súil agam gur bhain gach éinne sonas agus sásamh as Seachtain - nó coicís - na Gaeilge. An mbeidh tuairisc nua maidir le dul chun cinn Roinn an Taoisigh faoin straitéis 20 bliain ar fáil go luath? Baineann an tuairisc is déanaí le dul chun cinn na Roinne faoin...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Sinn Féin has consistently advocated the view that there is a need for sentencing guidelines to address sentencing that is inconsistent, inappropriate and, in some circumstances, wholly inadequate. This can happen in sentencing for a wide range of offences, but there have been several cases of sexual offences where the sentence has been difficult to comprehend. We have prioritised the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Sadly, the evidence of this fee and dividend model that the Taoiseach is advocating, whereby people receive their money back on the carbon tax they pay, has been proven not to work. It has not worked in British Columbia in Canada, where emissions have not gone down. It has not worked in Norway and it will not work here. It will not work for the very simple reason that we cannot change...