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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe that Deputy Gino Kenny was trying to promote any false position. He simply asked about medicinal cannabis and the medical access programme. I thought it was very clear. The Taoiseach is being utterly disingenuous on that. The anxiety endured by the women caught up in the CervicalCheck scandal was generated by people not connected at all with me but connected with the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the proposed budget for social media advertising in his Department for 2019. [49146/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is undoubtedly important to communicate and to do so on all platforms, as the Taoiseach said. Nobody is disputing that. I read a story in the Daily Mirror- I am sure the Taoiseach saw it as well - which is based on responses to freedom of information requests and which highlights the level of spending on communications and media advertising in the Taoiseach's Department since he took...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Earlier this morning, questions on the tendering process in respect of the national broadband plan, NBP, arose. Next week, we will have the opportunity to deliberate further on those matters but I want to raise the fact that more than 500,000 rural homes, businesses and farms are due to receive fast-tracked high-speed broadband connections next year. The Taoiseach has confirmed that...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----the Healy-Raes' kingdom, in Tralee and Castleisland. The issues facing rural Ireland are manifold. They cannot be reduced down to broadband but there is significant impatience with delivery. While all of this ruaille buaille about procurement and so on plays out politically, people are left without this service. Will the Taoiseach confirm the January date? Can he tell us when we and...

Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son Sinn Féin, ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann agus cairde an iar-Theachta Seán Ardagh, a fuair bás i mí na Bealtaine 2016. On my own behalf and that of Sinn Féin, I wish to express sincere and heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends of former Deputy, Seán Ardagh, who passed away in May 2016. Seán,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: People living in poverty do not have a choice.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Being poor is not a choice.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Despite the fact that it is still only November, we are now in the run-up to Christmas. Any family with small children would state that is now 27 sleeps until Santa arrives. For many families, the reality of making Christmas happen is one of stress and expense. Regrettably, providing even essentials is beyond the means of many. That unfortunate reality means that many families resort to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: A number of years ago, Sinn Féin introduced a Bill that would have capped the interest rates moneylenders can charge but the Taoiseach's party and the Labour Party voted it down. I put it to the Taoiseach that it is now time to introduce a cap on moneylenders to ensure they can no longer get away with their daylight robbery.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. His Government presides over an Ireland of soup kitchens, child homelessness, mothers queuing for formula and nappies, insecure employment and 300,000 people living in consistent poverty. To be clear, many of those people are at work. They get up at the crack of dawn and still struggle and fail to meet their basic requirements. I take it the Taoiseach is not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does he regard it as acceptable that people are ripped off in this way? In the context of the credit union It Makes Sense loan, I suggest that, rather than offering excuses to the House, the Taoiseach might act more vigorously and further resource that approach with the credit unions. It is a good approach-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----but there are credit unions from which it is not available. There is no point preaching to people to look for alternatives when for so many families there is simply no other alternative bar these vultures.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent ASEM summit. [49145/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Digital Strategy (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recently announced consultation process in respect of the national digital strategy. [49144/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in Dublin 7 who are on a waiting list to access an ASD unit. [49523/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in Dublin 1 who are on a waiting list to access an ASD unit. [49524/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if women eligible to apply to the Magdalen redress scheme (details supplied) are not required to provide proof or evidence of the hours they worked in cases in which this information is provided to the best of their ability. [49011/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the recently published addendum to the terms of the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme includes a provision that the calculation of the lump sum redress payment will be made on the basis that no child under 12 years of age worked in a Magdalen laundry, unless an applicant provides evidence of such work...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 427 of 6 November 2018, when a reply will issue. [49410/18]