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International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is fitting that International Women's Day takes place in springtime, which is the season that represents the spirit of renewal, hope and change, a time when darkness gives way to light and we can all see that bit better how far women have come and how far we have yet to travel. Generations of Irish women - courageous changemakers - struggled to transform the future for all of us to ensure...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. 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. [7770/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will meet next. [7768/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not what you said.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is very much the business of the State to support those who need care and those who provide care. The Taoiseach's recent comments in the media stating his position that the provision of care for vulnerable citizens is not the responsibility of the State are entirely wrong. They are, of course, very informative because they go some way towards explaining why carers have been so badly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do something about it then.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's position seems to be that there is actually no problem at University Hospital Limerick. He has just recounted for me, in his view, a huge record of success and adequate investment. That seems to be his position. The reality on the ground, of course, is very different. I recounted for him the story of 71-year-old stroke patient who was on a trolley for eight days. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Our hospitals are under massive pressure. Record waiting lists, a year-round trolley crisis and embedded problems in recruitment and retention mean the health service is creaking at the seams. Nowhere is this pressure more acutely felt than at University Hospital Limerick. Yesterday, there were 143 patients on trolleys at the hospital. Today, people are being urged to avoid the emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Post Office Network (29 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the proposed conversion of Phibsborough Post Office was discussed at the meeting with Minister of State at the Department of Transport and at the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications and An Post on 14 February 2024; if this post office is included in An Post's undertaking to review its decision to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. The Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, refuses to answer questions when she comes before the Dáil tomorrow. The same Minister was quite prepared to go on live television and, without prior notice, sack Ms Siún Ní Raghallaigh but is not prepared to come before the Chamber and answer questions. The Minister has badly mishandled the RTÉ debacle and has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: And thousands of other Maggies.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is just not prepared to do it. Okay. Thanks for that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: With respect, that is all just rhetoric. The problem is the Government is not responding to Maggie. She is ten years old. She is receiving no services. She is in a full-blown crisis and her mother is desperate. That is Maggie's story. The Minister's assertions do not change that fact at all. What is the response for Maggie? Is it a Minister taking to his feet and rattling off figures...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The crisis in child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, has escalated to a full-blown emergency. On the watch of this Government, waiting lists for first-time appointments have increased dramatically, while the number of young people waiting more than one year has nearly trebled. It is virtually impossible to access services. The reviews into CAMHS by the Mental Health Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to set out the guidelines reported to now be in place for low-usage customers accessing electricity credit payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9057/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Earlier, I cited the number of 327 children on waiting lists for scoliosis-related surgery. The Taoiseach challenged me on that matter. I wish to put the correct figure on the record of the Dáil, which is, in fact, 333. I had underestimated. This is published data from Children's Health Ireland from 19 February. The Taoiseach lost no time in summoning the Russian ambassador to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have a real problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá níos mó ná fadhb ann sa scéal seo. Tá sé scannalach go bhfuil daoine óga ag feitheamh is ag feitheamh is ag feitheamh agus ag fulaingt mar seo. Tá sé scannalach agus is é sin an focal ceart atá i gceist. I have being raising this issue here for almost a decade, as have other colleagues. It is time for the Taoiseach to confess...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Are you serious? Let it publish details relating to the waiting lists.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Seven years ago, the then Minister for Health and the Taoiseach's Fine Gael colleague, Deputy Simon Harris, promised that no child would be waiting longer than four months for scoliosis surgery. That promise was never met and of all the Government's broken promises, I think it is one of the most callous. The fact is there are more children on scoliosis-related waiting lists now than when...