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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Next Wednesday, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, will commence industrial action, and the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, is to follow in February. The Government sits on its hands. Last April, Sinn Féin introduced a motion to the Dáil that was agreed unanimously but the Government has refused to implement its recommendations. It called on the Government to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is a strike on Wednesday. Well done.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach need not convince anybody on the necessity of having a world-class children's hospital. God knows, people have waited long enough for it, but that is not the source of my questions. I am questioning the efficacy and effectiveness of the procurement procedures of the State. The Taoiseach should bear in mind that in the term of office of the previous Government his party made a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The projected cost overrun in respect of the national children's hospital is, at best, a fiasco and, at worst, an example of gross incompetence on the part of the Government and those overseeing the project. What is most worrying is that, despite the fact that this overrun is set to blow a hole in the capital budget for years to come, no one seems willing to take responsibility for it. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: That was for the Mater site.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach confirm when the referendum on the extension of voting rights in the Presidential election will be put to the people? This topic was already raised by Deputy Howlin but I would like a direct answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent conversation with Chancellor Merkel. [2491/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: On the same issue, it is important to clarify that we cannot wish a border away. I have said to the Taoiseach that, as a matter of simple logic, we seek the backstop to avoid a hardening of the Border. Therefore, as a matter of simple logic, if there is no backstop the Border hardens. It is not just a case of saying we are not doing it because it is not just about infrastructure; it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too wish to raise the issue which emerged last week of the almost 8,000 criminal offences - 7,894 to be precise - committed by 3,489 child suspects between the years of 2010 and 2017 which were not progressed because of Garda inaction. There was a failure to progress 37 cases involving a particular child as well as 2,500 cases in which there were multiple offences. Some 55 of the offences...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [1706/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The issue is not about dues.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is about union recognition. That is staggering.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to return to the issue of the mother and baby homes. I understand that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, brought a memo to Cabinet today. As has been articulated, the wrongs of these mother and baby homes are accepted by everyone in this House. I believe we all recognise that many of the victims and survivors are elderly and in ill health. In 2016, the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is hard to disagree with that analysis. I put it to the Taoiseach that survivors of the Bethany Home and Westbank Orphanage have a particular issue in that they feel and believe their exclusion was, to some extent, sectarian in nature because these were Protestant institutions. That needs to be fixed. Why will the Taoiseach not embrace the survivors of the Bethany Home and why will he...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: None of us wishes to see these things happening but they are happening on the Taoiseach's watch. That is the bottom line. The Taoiseach is the Head of Government and he carries the can for this. Despite all his self-satisfied patter, the number of discharges of children from Temple Street Hospital into homelessness has gone up by 29% and not down. Homelessness has been normalised and that...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The medical expert who treats these children - not me - states their maladies and injuries stem from the fact that they live in completely unsuitable, cramped and temporary accommodation. The Taoiseach does not have the figures for the State as a whole. I invite him to get those figures-----

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

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and to present them, when he has them, to the Dáil. Rather than giving self-righteous patter-----

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

Mary Lou McDonald: -----I invite the Taoiseach to give words of reassurance as a response to these children and their parents.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I am aware of that.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The doctors in Temple Street do not say-----