Results 6,021-6,040 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, Irish society is once again faced with a scandalous mistreatment of citizens, particularly women and children, by the State as we stare face-on into the scandal, not of incorrect registrations but of fraudulent, deliberate mis-registration and illegal adoptions. Yesterday, the Minister, Deputy Zappone, confirmed what so many previous Governments had known for decades. She...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is quite correct that this is not about retribution but what those affected tell me is that they want, above all, honest and that is why language matters here. It matters that we do not try to minimise what happened. It matters that we do not try to pretend that it was an accident, that it was a clerical error. It was deliberate, fraudulent and illegal and robbed the children,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU West Balkans summit in Sofia, Bulgaria on 17 May 2018. [22242/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke to the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [22244/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagement with the British Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa May on 17 May 2018. [22695/18]

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Saturday was a momentous day for all the people of the State. Ireland is changing and the old certainties are being challenged. A new and better Ireland is emerging. Saturday was a day when those who had been silenced demanded to be heard. It was a day when we collectively and decisively broke from the past. It was a day when the people said this was our time and our Ireland. It was a...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise with the Taoiseach an extremely important and pressing matter relating to the ongoing CervicalCheck scandal. More than three weeks after requesting access to the medical records and despite public and private assurances to the contrary, some patients have still to receive those records. That is despite it being made clear to CervicalCheck that these are required urgently....

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not proposing this discrete move, as the Taoiseach described it, as being optimum. The optimal situation is that we could move the legislation within a matter of weeks and give immediate effect to the will of the people. We all accept, however, that is just not possible and, in any event, we have to be sure-footed in the drafting of the new legislation. The bottom line is that...

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Saturday was a momentous day for the people of Ireland. We voted overwhelmingly to remove the eighth amendment from the Constitution. We said in a strong and unified voice that we would no longer tolerate Irish women being treated as second-class citizens. We said we trusted women to make the best decisions on their pregnancies and healthcare. We demonstrated the instinctive compassion of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (23 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [22243/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday a Dublin mother, Jackie Fox, made a presentation to Oireachtas Members in the AV room. She told Members of the campaign of physical and online bullying that led her daughter, Nicole, to take her own life. I was not in attendance for the briefing because I was in the Chamber, but it was very well attended. Those in attendance heard Jackie make one request. She asked that the law...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has been out on the campaign trail, no more than the rest of us, and I know he has spoken to countless parents - fathers and mothers - as I have, who told him that their greatest dread is the thought of their girl taking an abortion pill in their bedroom in silence and loneliness.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Prior to this referendum campaign, many people did not know of the existence of abortion pills, much less the frequency with which Irishwomen were ordering them online and consuming them with absolutely no medical supervision. The Department of Health estimates that every day three women and girls consume these abortion pills. It is a story that has featured but has not been openly...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Kate will turn 27 in October. Her mammy says she is a good girl. She is still a girl at 27. She is on her honeymoon but she will be home to vote. She is going to vote "Yes". There is a fundamental question for all of us as citizens, but particularly for all of us as legislators, on this matter. It boils down to this: are we prepared to look the other way as Kate and hundreds and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Estimates Process (22 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The budget for the Department of the Taoiseach is revised downwards from €35.891 million to €33.391 million, a 9% reduction. Only when we consider the bigger figures do we fully realise the significance of the €5 million SCU figure. That would have represented something like 15% of the Estimate for the Department, so the Taoiseach obviously attached very considerable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (22 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too invite the Taoiseach to make a response to the joint statement from Sinn Féin, the SDLP, the Alliance Party and the Green Party. It sets out clearly the majority view of people in the North that the island would remain in its totality within the customs union and the Single Market, and goes further in that Britain might also remain within those arrangements. It also makes clear...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Estimates Process (22 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Revised Estimate for his Department. [20958/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach did not answer my questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raised the matter of the HSE executive - the promotion.