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Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The hypocrisy today is odious as Fianna Fáil and the Taoiseach now pretend to champion the very people they helped feed to these vultures three years ago. I have a response to a parliamentary question submitted by Deputy Pearse Doherty which demonstrates that the former Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, and officials from the Department met representatives of vulture funds 60 times...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Communications (20 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 698, 699 and 700 of 13 January 2018, if following a High Court judgment (details supplied) regarding libel he will revoke his predecessors public statement on 24 April 2013 which includes the same selected excerpt from a report as used by a council. [8635/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach his Department's role in developing the new national development plan. [6899/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (13 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a report (details supplied) will be removed from his Department's website. [7103/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (13 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, following a High Court judgement (details supplied), he will revoke his predecessor's public statement of 24 April 2013, which included a quoted excerpt from a report. [7104/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (13 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 674. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to rescind a report (details supplied); and his plans to establish a new independent investigation regarding the compulsory acquisition of land at Charlesland, County Wicklow, by Wicklow County Council in 2004. [7105/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (7 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has ensured that the ongoing flood risk to persons in Tromatty and Quigley's Point, Inishowen, County Donegal (details supplied) has been assessed; and the solutions, including the construction of flood defences, the OPW is planning to protect persons from future flooding. [6127/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (7 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has ensured that the ongoing flood risk to persons in Clonmany, County Donegal (details supplied) has been assessed; and the solutions, including the construction of flood defences, the OPW is planning to protect persons from future flooding. [6128/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (7 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has ensured that the ongoing flood risk to persons and local businesses in Carndonagh, County Donegal (details supplied) has been assessed; and the solutions, including the construction of flood defences, the OPW is planning to protect persons from future flooding. [6129/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (7 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 189. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for an outpatient appointment. [6147/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Act Employment Targets (6 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 16 January 2018, if his attention has been dawn to the fact that an education and training board (details supplied) does not state the voluntary nature of the requested disclosure on the staff census form statistical monitoring of employment of staff in the public services, Part 5 of the Disability...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (1 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take to ensure work is resumed at a club (details supplied) in Dublin 7 following the financial collapse of a company. [5020/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (30 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has ensured that the ongoing flood risk to persons in a location (details supplied) that have been out of their homes since August 2017, has been assessed; and the solutions including the construction of flood defences, the OPW is considering to protect persons from future flooding. [3980/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (24 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has issued payments from the ex-gratia Magdalene restorative justice scheme to the 19 women whose payments were being delayed by his Department on the basis that the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 provisions were not yet in place; if not, the date by which he plans to do so; and if he will make...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Several of the Minister's colleagues have signalled a review of the local property tax, LPT, including the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, this morning. We had advised Government from the outset that the local property tax was not a progressive but a punitive tax on the family home. It seems the penny has dropped as property prices and home values are rising not least in Dublin. The...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will take the Minister's reply as a "No".

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: People who are being discriminated against under the current State pension provisions will protest outside Leinster House again this afternoon. The Minister is probably aware that this issue affects approximately 40,000 citizens who are campaigning for the full restoration of their pension entitlements. They want a full rather than a partial solution. Some of them are out of pocket to the...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister for that answer. I do not for one second deny the complexities involved in pensions policy, provision and reform. I am not challenging that, but the Minister needs to understand the absolute simplicity of the case being made by those who are gathering at the gates of Leinster House. The simple fact is that the changes introduced when Fine Gael was in government in 2012...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would like to add my voice to those who have commended the work of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. I particularly commend my colleagues, Teachtaí Louise O'Reilly and Jonathan O'Brien and Seanadóir Paul Gavan. I also commend the Chairman of the committee, Senator Catherine Noone, who did a very fine job. As an Oireachtas, we made a big ask of our...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding has been allocated for the flood defence works at Burnfoot, County Donegal; and when these works will commence. [1058/18]