Results 8,861-8,880 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 881. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in admitting a person (details supplied) to the Central Mental Hospital; when the person can expect to be admitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41176/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1706. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to advertise the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland in print, radio and electronic media outlets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1637/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1707. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to advertise the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes overseas in print, radio and electronic media outlets and to ensure members of the diaspora have an opportunity to share their testimony with the Commission (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1638/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1708. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she plans to publish the second interim report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1639/17]
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Anger.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nollaig shona, Tánaiste. Happy Christmas to you-----
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to the staff and to your little helpers, the elves and gnomes of Fianna Fáil.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: You never know, you could get a little bit of mistletoe and kiss and make up. I wish to ask the Tánaiste for an update on the all-party motion that we passed to accept 200 unaccompanied minors from France. Will she give the House a sense of the timeframe for this process? I know she has been active on it. I heard it reported that the Attorney General advised that a special legal...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Right across the State, there are 700,000 people living in private rented accommodation. As a result of the housing crisis, the vast majority of them are under immense pressure. In the face of constant rent increases and an absence of supply, they are just about getting by. In truth, many of them are not getting by. Four families become homeless each day. Many more are on the brink....
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: If the cap fits, the Tánaiste should wear it. If the Government does not wish to be stereotyped as one which is utterly out of touch and utterly indifferent to the struggles of renting families, it should stop behaving in that way. This is not a complex matter. The antics, as they have played out in recent days, confirm for families watching that, when it comes down to it, tenants are...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It seems Fine Gael wishes to give the impression of action involving itself and Fianna Fáil. The way to resolve this is to link rent reviews to the consumer price index. It is transparent, it is fair, it is what will work and it is what the Government would do if it had the interests of tenants and hard-pressed families at heart.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: How many families will be homeless at that stage?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sure they will.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nero fiddles as Rome burns.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a bit late for that now.
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Ní raibh.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Fianna Fáil voted against it three times.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: And also in the North of Ireland.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not outside of Ireland; it is actually part of Ireland.