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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the job of the Taoiseach to protect the interests of the country and the island as a whole and it is absolutely and resolutely squarely in the region of having no border. The Taoiseach might answer my question about the sub-committee and my proposition to him that he has a Brexit sub-committee that is in session and meeting all the time, not monthly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: On the Cabinet sub-committees, does the Taoiseach believe it is wise or appropriate for Brexit to be put alongside European issues? I understood that international affairs also featured in that sub-committee. Will the Taoiseach clarify this point? Brexit issues require a singular focus and effort. When we last spoke on these on 3 October, the Taoiseach told us that the previous...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to return to the national mitigation plan, which was published in July by the Minister, Deputy Naughten. The Taoiseach said that the consultation on the national adaptation framework will conclude on 27 October. Will the framework and the proposals be available by 10 December, which I understand is the target date? Is the Taoiseach on track for that? Thereafter, how long will it...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is in our prebudget speech.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is a separate issue.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I fully accept that pensioner poverty is an issue that affects men as well as women, but it is also a fact that the changes made in 2012 disproportionately affect women. That is why it is an issue of such concern for organisations such as the Irish Countrywomen's Association. As complex as pensions are and the rules and regulations concerning them, it is not complicated to understand that a...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thought the Taoiseach read our pre-budget submission.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It has now tabled a Dáil motion, which I welcome and which sets out to achieve the very thing it opposed last December.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore, there is more brass on the necks of the Fianna Fáil leadership that one would expect in a marching band. Can we welcome Fianna Fáil to the corner of these women, no matter how late, cynical or self-serving its arrival might be? Here is the rub: the Taoiseach will lose the vote on the motion tomorrow night as I believe the Dáil will vote in support of the women....

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I join with the Taoiseach and all of the House in our expressions of sympathy to and solidarity with the families and loved ones of Clare O'Neill, Michael Pyke and Fintan Goss. I also recognise the enormous efforts of our emergency services, our first responders, those organisations that deal with the homeless, ESB crews, public transport teams, people working in the health services and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the construction of a permanent school building for a school (details supplied) will commence; when the temporary accommodation for two of the school's classes will be in place enabling the classes temporarily located in a school (details supplied) to move back to the Rathborne, Dublin 15, site; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 275. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 will receive an appointment for occupational therapy; and the reason for the delay [43382/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 410. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend membership of the monitoring committee for Ireland’s rural development programme 2014 to 2020 to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43450/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of providing all persons in receipt of a long-term illness payment with a free travel pass. [43446/17]

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Government seriously asking women to wait until 2020 for this matter to be resolved? That is bonkers, unbelievable and unacceptable. Every Member accepts the changes introduced in 2012 disproportionately affect and impoverish women. I have told the Tánaiste that almost 25% of women in receipt of a State pension are discriminated against to the tune of €30 a week. That...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The women affected campaigned on this issue before the budget. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil were aware of this issue before they signed off on the budget. The women in question have been led to believe there is unanimous support in the Dáil for the reversal of the 2012 changes, and that the Dáil understands and will end this discrimination against women. That is what needs to...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste was not asked that question.

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Then the Government should reverse it.

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I also want to raise the way in which budget 2018 perpetuates the discrimination faced by many, but particularly by women, when it comes to the State pension. As has been said, 35,000 people have been left with a lesser pension payment than they would have received had they retired before 2012. As the Tánaiste knows, this is the result of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: In our alternative budget, which is a balanced budget, Sinn Féin provides for the funding to reverse the 2012 changes, which so viciously discriminate against women. The Government could have made that choice too but it refused. It chose not to do right by the women affected. Doling out tea and sympathy does not cut it. Fine Gael is in government to bring forward solutions and...