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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received for an ASD unit place for school years (details supplied) in tabular form. [9523/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received for early intervention places for children of pre-school age that are on the autism spectrum for school years (details supplied) in tabular form. [9524/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the educational alternatives provided for children with autism that are unable to secure an ASD unit place and are unable to attend a mainstream primary school due to the degree of their disability. [9526/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation for the provision of an ASD unit in each of the years 2016 to 2018, in tabular form. [9525/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 375. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that applications for home help or home care packages submitted to the HSE by medical social workers or public health nurses and assessed in favour of provision are not being provided on the basis that the funding is not available to provide the supports and the HSE is unable to advise when the funding will become...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (26 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for home help or home care packages on the pending list of the HSE. [9502/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (26 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 556. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures put in place to enable Irish citizens resident in Northern Ireland to apply for an Irish driver licence post-Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9470/19]

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, it is not.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Every deadline has been missed.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Our healthcare system is in crisis as every day brings new headlines which tell of the litany of failures inherent in the system. We have had a series of scandals, including that of CervicalCheck. Over the course of that debacle, the bravery of women like Emma Mhic Mhathúna has shone a light directly on the incompetence of the Minister for Health. That scandal continues with the...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is a coalition in all but name. The Taoiseach certainly has the measure of the leader of Fianna Fáil because he knows that Deputy Micheál Martin will fall into line once pressure is applied. This is not about Brexit. This is not about avoiding an election. The national interest is not served by retaining a Minister who is clearly failing. Today, supply and confidence...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [7984/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Project Ireland 2040 recognises the importance of cross-Border co-operation and investment in developing the Border corridor, specifically the Donegal and Derry region. Derry and Strabane District Council has in place an ambitious, inclusive strategic growth plan and, as part of the plan, the council is trying to secure a city deal for the region from the British Government. Its plan also...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he has held recent meetings with representatives of churches and faith communities as part of the church-State structured dialogue process. [6558/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to pick up on that theme. A geophysical survey of infant burial grounds will begin today at the site of the former Sean Ross Abbey mother and baby home, near Roscrea, County Tipperary. Records of deaths at the home show that 269 children died there between 1934 and 1967 but, due to the failure of the order to keep records, the number of children who died there is not known...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last year the Government spent a staggering €695 million on rent subsidies to private landlords and property owners across four schemes administered by two Departments. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection spent €175 million on the rent supplement scheme and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government spent €100 million on long-term...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [6557/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits to introducing measures to ensure the more efficient and timely recruitment of nurses. However, the HSE continues to pay hundreds of millions of euro in employing temporary agency staff. Last year saw the largest increase in spending on agency staff since 2014, up €26 million to a staggering €318 million. Since 2011, when Fine Gael took...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister cannot plead ignorance or shirk blame. What plan is in place to end this misuse of taxpayers' money?

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son Shinn Féin ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann agus cáirde an iar-Theachta Donal Creed a fuair bás i Mí na Samhna 2017. On my behalf and on behalf of Sinn Féin, I would like to extend sincere sympathies to the family and friends of former Teachta Donal Creed, who passed away in November 2017. I believe Deputy...