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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh agus arís gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach as a chuid freagraí. I will take this opportunity to raise the issue of Syria with the Taoiseach. On Saturday, the United States, Britain and France launched airstrikes there, which all reasonable and right-thinking people will find abhorrent, just as they would find abhorrent the use of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee F, national security, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [13849/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is a bit optimistic.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: A Cabinet secret.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat agus gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach as ucht a chuid freagraí. I want to raise with the Taoiseach the very serious issue of non-specialist doctors operating as consultants, even though they are not on the Medical Council's specialist register. It was reported by Susan Mitchell in The Sunday Business Postat the weekend that 650 of the 4,373 medical...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E (health) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [13848/18]

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son Sinn Féin, ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann agus le cairde an iar-Theachta Peter Mathews, a fuair bás an bhliain seo caite. On my own behalf and on behalf of Sinn Féin, I want to extend our heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends of Peter Mathews, who sadly passed away in February 2017. As has already been alluded...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach clarify when business will be reordered to allow for statements and questions to the Minister? I understand from media reports that he has finally agreed to implement the Ombudsman's recommendations following a scathing report late last year on the Department's administration of the Magdalen laundry redress scheme. The report came on foot of complaints made by 27 women...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: A small number of women are awaiting redress. They lack capacity and are particularly reliant on the Department and the Courts Service to support their applications. The Taoiseach's decision to implement the report's recommendations is welcome. The Minister for Justice and Equality-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Pardon?

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not making any lengthy statement.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: He was doing a comedy routine with his counterpart. May I pose my question?

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you so much. I ask the Taoiseach for a timeframe within which the recommendations will be delivered on. I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I will now resume my seat. I thank him for him courtesy.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does that make it okay?

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am asking legitimate questions. I would prefer to be in here raising a different issue but we are not. For all the guff about new politics, is this where we are at, with the gold-plated few having access to Ministers and, in part, given the heads-up on decisions the Minister has taken? What way is that to conduct politics? I very much hope the Minister will present himself this evening....

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am saying, if I am correct, that the meeting in 2016 occurred on 12 November.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is on record as suggesting, in answer to a question in the House, that he had not taken a decision at that stage. All this is extremely troubling and worrying.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not accept the position of the Taoiseach, as Head of Government, that this is simply a matter for the courts.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is true that it is a matter for the courts on points of law but the conduct of one of his Ministers is a matter for him and the entire Dáil.