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Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will begin by thanking and commending our colleague, Deputy Louise O'Reilly, for tabling this motion and for doing so at this time. I think we are in agreement, despite the fact that we have regularly commended ourselves for having the best maternity services in the world - it almost became like a catch-cry or a matter of national honour - that there are massive deficits and shortfalls...

Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also extend a very warm welcome to members of Mental Health Reform and all our visitors this evening in the Gallery for what is a very important debate at the beginning of this month of May, a month of mental health awareness. So many of us are wearing our green ribbons in solidarity and as a mark of a change that is happening in Irish society, albeit gradually, in which the stigma,...

Order of Business (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Mulvey report being brought to the Cabinet?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1029. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the inadequate ambulance service in north-west Connemara; and if so, his plans to address this issue. [20179/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1034. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that an ambulance service is in place to meet the needs of an area (details supplied) in County Galway; if he will request the national ambulance service to consider a group's suggestion that an ambulance be deployed in an empty Garda barracks. [20187/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1111. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant psychiatrists that are currently employed by the HSE; the number previously employed by the HSE, including their dates of termination (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20629/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Tribunals (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1112. To ask the Minister for Health the number of registered private psychiatrists qualified to offer independent approval in mental health tribunals as set up under the Mental Health Commission in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20630/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Tribunals (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1113. To ask the Minister for Health the related costs for a secondary sign off by a medical professional during a mental health tribunal as set up by the Mental Health Commission; if these medical professionals are employed directly by the HSE or if they are private GPs; if in the case that secondary sign off is conducted by both HSE employees and GPs depending on individual cases, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Tribunals (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1114. To ask the Minister for Health the method of selection for solicitors for tribunals with regard to mental health tribunals as set up by the Mental Health Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20632/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Tribunals (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1115. To ask the Minister for Health the process involved for putting in place legal services required for the tribunals, with regard to mental health tribunals as set up by the Mental Health Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20633/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Tribunals (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1116. To ask the Minister for Health the fees paid with regard to mental health tribunals as set up by the Mental Health Commission for consultant psychiatrists, solicitors and lay persons, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20634/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Cullinane and I have submitted to the Chairman a fairly comprehensive list of questions and issues that we believe need to be answered by the HEA but also by the Department of Education and Skills. The questions are on issues regarding whistleblowers. Last week, we raised this with Dr. Love from the HEA, which he said was open to providing us with a fairly detailed oversight of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that other members will want to have a look at it. It is comprehensive but straightforward. There is nothing hugely surprising in it but we have gone to the trouble of itemising it for the purpose of being specific rather than making a general request of the parties that they have the specifics we are looking for. I wanted to bring that to the Chairman's attention. I have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The second thing relates to the Comptroller and Auditor General. One of the issues we raised last week is the area of intellectual property and its commercialisation and the processes, procedures, oversight, conflicts of interest, the money in terms of revenues generated and who got what proportionately. We proposed a special investigation and it is still my view that we need it. We need...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to speak on the same topic. I wish to puzzle out what I think is an extraordinary intervention by the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan. To me it is astonishing that a Minister of State would consider it appropriate to put out a statement and to rap the knuckles of the Committee of Public Accounts. I have the statement in front of me. The Minister of State said he felt he had to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was in the Waterford News & Starand on WLR FM.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The issue is whether it was in the local chronicle or splattered across The Irish Times, what I am querying is that a Minister of State would deem it appropriate to intervene in that way. I think it is completely inappropriate. I cannot imagine what he was thinking, bar maybe jockeying for position within his constituency, but that is for him to explain. We need to decide what we do about...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: He is, and we are all entitled to say what we wish, within the boundaries of the law and decency. The difficulty is that the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, is sited within his Department. In that regard, are we setting ourselves up for a position whereby, as we consider matters in the Department of Justice and Equality, for example, that it is okay for the Minister to come out with a...