Results 41-60 of 20,543 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Save the homily on living within budgets for someone else. The facts are these; at University Hospital Limerick, as was confirmed to the Oireachtas committee, every single day, there are patients who are deemed sick enough to require admission who cannot be admitted. That is the reality day-on-day.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The hospital does not have enough beds or the required level of staff. The Taoiseach quoted a figure of 2,268 additional posts. He knows full well that in previous years, that has been as high as 7,000. The system is stripped bare. I have set out the facts for him. These are facts from people on the front line with regard to dental services, mental health capacity, and all across the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: You do not let young women die on trolleys or lying across chairs. That is what you do not do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is my policy. You do not allow young women to die in a hospital, lying on chairs. How is that for a policy?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: More than 11,000 patients waited on hospital trolleys last month. University Hospital Limerick again had the highest figure of any hospital in the State, closely followed by University Hospital Galway. The trolley crisis is now a year-round emergency. Our hospitals are under enormous and sustained pressure. Yesterday the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, announced that a HSE support...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the updated guidelines/procedures on the use of school buildings outside of school hours will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19704/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any consultation has taken place with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability and Youth regarding the updating of guidelines/procedures on the use of school buildings outside of school hours, noting the challenges being faced by afterschool services in securing sustainable use of school buildings to accommodate afterschool services;...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Outside of the UN Charter?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Well then test it so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It should be tested by means of a referendum.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: So leave it alone.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [11793/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I had intended to raise with the Taoiseach the issue of extending the franchise for the presidential elections because the Government has dragged its heels on that matter which is most unfortunate. I want to return to the issue of neutrality because we need to nail this nonsense the Government is trying to peddle that somehow removing the need for a UN mandate is a minor modification of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [11792/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will be brief. No reform programme on earth will be of any value when there is such low morale in the ranks of An Garda Síochána and such a crisis in public confidence. That is the legacy of Fine Gael. Thirteen years on, people the length and breadth of this State do not feel safe. With the inner city, I do not have time. I could write books on it. There has been an abject...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: You took our troops from the Golan Heights. This is fiction.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Not to wreck Ireland's neutrality.