Results 6,681-6,700 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Discipline (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which an employer may commence or cease at different stages the procedures set out in circular 0071/2014, in tabular form. [55247/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Discipline (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which an employer may commence or cease at different stages the procedures set out in circular 0059/2009 prior to it being superseded by circular 0071/2014, in tabular form. [55248/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Act Employment Targets (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the circulation of a form by the education and training board management instructing staff to declare disability they may have or had including episodic illnesses. [55274/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken by his Department following the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation second interim report recommendation that it re-examine the decision not to include a number of institutions including a location (details supplied) in the residential institutions redress scheme. [1491/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Assisted Decision Making (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 474. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will commence. [1760/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Appointments (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names of the two academics appointed to the scoping group to consider the availability of data and make recommendations on a study to identify the prevalence of sexual abuse and violence here and emerging trends following his Department's recent tendering process. [55074/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Apology (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of discussions he has had with Dublin City Council senior management regarding the creation of an appropriate memorial at the Gloucester Street Magdalen laundry site on Seán McDermott Street, Dublin 1; and the assistance his Department has provided to Dublin City Council to progress the engagement with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Apology (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 611. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the work undertaken by his Department regarding the Quirke report recommendation that a memorial to the Magdalen women be funded and provided for by the Government; and if this work includes engagement with Dublin City Council officials to develop a memorial on the former Magdalen laundry site on Sean McDermott Street, Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (16 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 592. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date by which the Government will ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [1765/18]