Results 641-660 of 21,647 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last Tuesday, not alone did the Ceann Comhairle put herself at the centre of that Government plan, she led the charge.
- Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: In an unprecedented, and frankly breathtaking display of bias, the person charged with safeguarding and preserving democracy in this House helped to tear it apart. The Ceann Comhairle actively and enthusiastically fulfilled the bidding and the aims of the Government, acting, not as the impartial Chair of the Dáil, but more like a loyal Minister under political instruction from the top.
- Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: She was acting as the Government's Ceann Comhairle, signed, sealed and delivered by Michael Lowry. What we witnessed was an unrivalled partisan display. The Ceann Comhairle forced through the Government agenda, showing blatant disrespect and contempt for the mandate of the combined Opposition. In forcing through the Government's plan, Verona Murphy took a wrecking ball to the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he had with the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in the days before, during and after storm Éowyn. [10820/25]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is important to acknowledge the trauma to any child undergoing a surgery but the very idea a child would be put through that unnecessarily is doubly traumatic. Parents are now faced with the scenario of not knowing. The audit may only be in draft form but the letters have been issued. They are arriving to families. This stress and distress is very real in the here and now and the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: When did the Minister know?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: He does not know when the Minister knew.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hundreds of parents are today living the nightmare of the prospect that their children were operated on unnecessarily. On foot of whistleblower allegations, an audit was carried out into paediatric hip dysplasia surgeries at three Children's Health Ireland hospitals. The audit, which has been published in full on The Ditch website, found that hundreds of children who were operated on...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 29. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by his Department in reducing child poverty and promoting well-being. [10821/25]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 49. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [9163/25]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Programmes (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 88. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [7555/25]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 93. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [7556/25]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 97. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [9165/25]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 102. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will meet next. [9167/25]
- Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to repeal the provision in the Water Services Act 2017 allowing Uisce Éireann to introduce a customer charge for use of water in excess of the specified threshold amount. We move this legislation today because Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael cannot be trusted on water charges. The legislation would scrap water charges...
- Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (27 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in Dublin 1, 3, 7,9, that are on a waiting list for a school place in special schools, for 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14743/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (27 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school places available for enrolment in September in special schools in Dublin 1, 3, 7 ,9, for 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14744/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a freeze on special needs assistants supports in schools; if so the steps she will take to end this freeze; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14745/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the freeze on special needs assistants supports in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14746/25]