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Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: With reference to-----

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The account the Taoiseach has given does not actually tally with accounts and the turn of events as reflected at the time. I hope the record of the Dáil is correct.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do not underestimate the level of public understanding of the importance of screening. Women know full well that cervical screening and BreastCheck are essential parts of their healthcare. That is not a matter of public debate. We also know they are not diagnostic and there is no "100%". Furthermore, we know that in these cases, information was deliberately withheld from women and their...

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not what I asked.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has said that he defends the right of patients to know the full facts about their own health. The fact is that he has opposed a mandatory duty of candour. He failed to support it as Minister for Health in 2015 and he failed to support it again in February of this year when he was questioned by my colleague, Deputy O'Reilly. His failure in this area reinforces the State's...

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: What we see here is concealment, harassment, cover-up and death. I have three questions for the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: When did he become aware that there was an issue with the cervical cancer screening programme, particularly the review carried out in 2014?

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Taoiseach prepared to support the introduction of a mandatory duty of candour? Will he remove Mr. Tony O'Brien from his position immediately?

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today people are trying to make sense of how profoundly the State has failed the women affected by the cervical cancer scandal. A total of 208 women went for a vital screening for a life-threatening illness and were wrongly given the all clear, of whom 162 were not told about this devastating error. I understand some of them have still not been contacted, but if I have that wrong, the...

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have named names and repeat that the Taoiseach should sack the named individual. Of course, we would know nothing about this scandal were it not for the bravery of Vicky Phelan which the Taoiseach has acknowledged. She is terminally ill and was coerced and harassed through the courts by the State in her fight to get to the truth. The legal strategy pursued by the State and stood over by...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to appeal the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of persons (details supplied). [17815/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Act Employment Targets (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 6 February 2018, the actions he has taken to ensure that the attention of employees of bodies under the aegis of his Department has been drawn to the fact that the completion of the staff census form is voluntary. [18646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Communications (1 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 446. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, following a High Court judgment (details supplied), he will remove his predecessor’s public statement of 24 April 2013 from his Department's website. [18647/18]

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to extend a warm welcome to those who join us for this debate this afternoon. I commend my colleague, Deputy O'Reilly, on her ongoing work and advocacy in respect of this issue and on bringing forward this motion. In recent weeks, I have travelled across the State and met nurses and their representatives. At each meeting, the story has always been the same. Our nurses are under...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: To take up that point, there is considerable local frustration regarding the fact that much of the construction in the area relates to student accommodation. I am not overstating things. I represent the area and know it very well. I am not overstating matters when I say that very many people in the inner city, in the old flats complexes, are living in conditions that are not fit for human...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: These are the finest of people and the finest of families and it is no reflection on them. They live in flats in which there is no room for a kitchen table or a dining-room table where a child would do his or her obair bhaile or where a family can eat a meal together. It is astonishing. In fact, when Kieran Mulvey was doing the groundwork for what would subsequently be his report, he...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Stop fighting. We heard you.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's role in the North East Inner City Initiative. [17610/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's role in the annual 1916 commemoration. [17611/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Howlin has made a good proposal. I have a number of questions on State commemorations generally. In the build up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising, one aspect that worked very well was the all-party consultative group on commemorations. It was first established in 2005 and reconstituted in 2011. It was envisaged that the group would look at a host of events over the course of...