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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-----

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

Mary Lou McDonald: In response to the first question the Taoiseach said our most valuable citizens were children. I challenge him and the Government because it is very clear to me that on his watch children are not our most valued citizens. This morning Temple Street Children's University Hospital released the figure for the numbers of children who had presented at its emergency department last year and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision a new MRI scanner at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [2401/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the per capita funding of local authorities ratio by county. [2441/19]

Ráitis ó Cheannairí na bPáirtithe agus na nGrúpaí - Statements from Party and Group Leaders (21 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Táim lán-sásta labhairt ar an ócáid stairiúil seo - comóradh 100 bliain an Chéad Dáil. One hundred years ago in this very room, revolutionary Ireland found its parliamentary voice. Deputies gathered with a unity of purpose in the cause of equality, independence and freedom. An eyewitness to the day,...

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am deeply saddened to learn there are tensions between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, partners in government, and I am happy to take to my feet as a leader of the Opposition. Táim fíor bhuíoch agus an deis labhartha seo a ghlacadh ar an ábhar tábhachtach um tráthnóna. Since June 2016, when the Brexit referendum result became clear, we have been...