Results 5,721-5,740 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcomes from the recent meeting of the interdepartmental committee to examine the way in which existing State services can best meet the residential institutions survivors into the future; and the publication date agreed by the committee for its final report. [47133/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when primary legislation will be introduced in order to extend the medical card and other health-related supports to the surviving women of the Magdalen laundries who have previously been excluded from the redress scheme due to the fact that they were recorded as being admitted to a different institution closely associated...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the benefits and entitlements that his Department will now provide to the surviving women of the Magdalen laundries who have previously been excluded from the redress scheme due to the fact that they were recorded as being admitted to a different institution that was closely associated with their respective laundries within...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 410. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 will receive an appointment to see an orthopaedic surgeon in St. James's Hospital. [46963/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is ideologically driven.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [40784/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the Minister for Justice and Equality has finally brought outstanding legal advice to Cabinet this morning that will enable his Department to progress redress payments to survivors of the Magdalen laundries. A year has passed since the Ombudsman published his report of an investigation into the administration of the Magdalen redress scheme. That investigation found a serious...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [40783/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The proposal for an EU digital sales tax was raised earlier by the leader of the Green Party and, in response, the Taoiseach gave a critique of the model that is proposed. Does he have a concern in respect of this tax in the context of overall Irish tax sovereignty? On the issue of jobs and job plans, it is very obvious that throughout this island, North and South, there are very severe...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I hope they are not too extremist.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: They do not need to. I am doing my job.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: We did the work last February.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, European Union and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [40782/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: It says everything about the Taoiseach that when his performance or competence in the discharge of his duties is questioned, he lashes out. In an exchange earlier today, he accused me of being too radical and - ouch - apparently I am a bully. The Taoiseach levelled these accusations at me for having the temerity to put it to him that he is not acquitting himself well at this point, when the...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to return to the issue raised by Deputy Coppinger in respect of the structural issues affecting schools throughout the State. I understand the Minister for Education and Skills briefed Cabinet on this matter this morning. I ask for a brief update as to where the remedial works are at and if the schools that are closed will be able to re-open this week. I also ask what plan is in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I urge him, as Head of Government, not to lose his nerve or blink at this stage. How on earth, at such a sensitive time in a negotiation, can the Taoiseach commit himself to a review clause? Reviews, by definition-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----imply things that are time-bound and transitory. How has the Taoiseach committed himself to that when he now says on the floor of the Dáil that he has seen no wording and does not in fact know what it would amount to?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not creative; it is dangerous.