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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (16 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of suicide crisis assessment nurses in the Mater hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23065/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (16 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 426. To ask the Minister for Health the policy or procedures in place in the accident and emergency department of the Mater hospital when an adult, adolescent or child, respectively, presents with suicidal ideation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23066/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (16 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 427. To ask the Minister for Health the psychiatric and mental health services and facilities currently available at the Mater hospital; the number of consultants, specialists and nurses working in these services and facilities; the role of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23067/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We will see what we can do. Yesterday, the Taoiseach indicated the Tánaiste would be more than happy, in fact delighted it seems, to come before the House and make a statement on the matters surrounding Templemore and some of the issues we touched on during Leaders' Questions. He also indicated the Tánaiste would be quite happy to take questions in that regard. I want to know...
- Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is correct and those provisions enable her to act.
- Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is failing in that.
- Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday and again today, the Taoiseach and the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, expressed continued confidence in the Garda Commissioner. The Tánaiste does so in the wake of damning documentation presented by the head of Garda human resources, Mr. John Barrett, to the Committee of Public Accounts. This documentation substantiates Mr. Barrett's contradiction of...
- Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste talks a great deal about reform.
- Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: She talks about raising morale but she does not mean it.
- Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: She is bluffing. When will the Tánaiste stop bluffing? When will she remove the Commssioner and begin that process of reform? That is what she must do. Will she do it?
- Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste's response is ironic. She talks of accountability but she resolutely refuses to take the first action of accountability, which is to hold the boss - the Commissioner - to account. She will not do that. Let me say, as a member of the Committee of Public Accounts, that we are well conversant with our role and our responsibilities. Let me reiterate: we will get to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Before we proceed with the business of the committee, I am sure we all wish to extend our condolences to the Chairman on the loss of his mother. We convey to him our sympathy and solidarity at this time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is very welcome news. At the hearing in question we referred to the need for a fresh inquiry. I wonder if the Department proposes to provide us with the terms of reference. It would be appropriate to do so, all things considered. The Department might also allow us the facility to offer some reflections on the terms of reference. The issue has been ongoing for some time and the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am a bit puzzled about the legal advice, although maybe it is no harm. A precedent for hearing directly from a whistleblower has been set. The person voluntarily came before the committee at his or her own request. The person to whom I refer is Sergeant Maurice McCabe. The session was in private because there were big concerns at the time about Sergeant McCabe's own legal protections,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----in accordance with her request.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: My understanding is that they can be available to members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: On that point of order, I agree with the Deputy that we should not use inflammatory or judgmental language.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is a reason documents are dated, and it is to verify the facts as presented on that date. It is as a matter of fact misleading to present the facts in that way, not least as I understood from last week's hearing that it was very late in the day when the Comptroller and Auditor General was alerted to the facts of what was happening in Templemore. I do not say that with the view that we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----but dates must mean something.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I remind the committee that the issues around the public domain and the matters of public concern were unearthed in this committee room. This is clearly not a court of law, but it clearly is the Committee of Public Accounts of the Oireachtas and is regularly cited as the most influential and powerful committee of the Oireachtas. Vested in us is the responsibility to follow the money from a...