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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [15014/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: News broke at the weekend that private patients were now able to access cancer drugs that are denied within the public system. This is a disturbing and worrying development, not because those with private health cover can access drugs that they need, but because public patients will be denied equal access. The drugs approval process for public patients has hit a brick wall in recent years...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is very welcome that a congressional delegation led by Speaker Pelosi will visit Ireland for a two-day tour. I note Speaker Pelosi's remarks setting out clearly that there will be no trade arrangement with Britain in the event that the Good Friday Agreement is in any way damaged or undermined. That is most welcome. I note that members of the Committee on Ways and Means of the US House...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United States of America. [15013/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to the commitments in the programme for Government to support people with disabilities in maximising their potential and to remove barriers which impact on access to services, education or healthcare. Last week in County Mayo, I met Cillian Mearns, who is seven years of age, and his mother, Lorraine. Cillian and his friend, Grace, are two of the children in Mayo who are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----or price range. In a similar manner to his colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, regarding a hospital that will perhaps be the most expensive ever built anywhere in the world, the Taoiseach persists with this laissez-faireapproach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have asked two questions. I would like an answer to them. I actually asked three on the issue of cost, the issue of timing-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and, if all else fails, plan B. We have offered the Government a plan B by way of using the established ESB network.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has resisted that thus far. Will the Taoiseach consider it if the situation comes to that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: A laissez-faire attitude to money.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is now tied to one bidder which has the bargaining power, not the State. If the process fails or the Government decides to ditch it, what is plan B?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Leaving households, businesses and communities in the lurch is not a policy option here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach says he wants more time but we know from a response to a parliamentary question submitted by my colleague, an Teachta Stanley, that 80 civil servants and consultants have been working on this tender process for over two years. The whole process has been marked by delay, which has generated massive frustration and impatience right across those rural homes and communities which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The world looked on with horror at the inferno at Notre Dame cathedral. I and my colleagues extend our sympathies to the people of Paris, in particular, and to everybody who visited and loved that great cathedral. It will be rebuilt. The Taoiseach stated last December that the cost of the national broadband plan roll out could amount to many multiples of what was originally estimated....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he will take following the adoption of a resolution (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17273/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (11 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a defined benefit pension scheme (details supplied) has been closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17033/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits that the Government will actively fulfil its mandate as co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement. Today marks the 21st anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. That agreement has delivered peace and fundamentally changed relationships across Ireland and the relationship with Britain. It promised power sharing, equality and the potential...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: For those of us who live in the real world, let me set out what has happened. There has been a €450 million overrun and counting. Those are public moneys that will have to be found somewhere. This whole fiasco has been overseen by a Minister who is clearly incompetent. At this stage he is a lame duck Minister whom the Government, with the assistance of Fianna Fáil, insists on...