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Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also extend my party's deepest sympathies to the bereaved families and friends of the two young children and the young woman who lost their lives so tragically in the fire at Kilcronan in Clondalkin overnight. Our thoughts are with them and we wish all of those who were injured a full and speedy recovery. Today is International Women's Day. It is a day for commemorating and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (8 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of households currently in receipt of the housing assistance payment in each local authority area in tabular form; the average payment in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12286/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 194. To ask the Minister for Health when he envisages the medical lead on dual diagnosis to commence work, having been appointed six months ago. [12235/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (8 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that the full capacity protocol has been deployed at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in 2016. [12267/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (7 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a discretionary medical card despite the fact that they have provided extensive medical documentation to the primary care reimbursement service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11982/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Data (7 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 802. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost per job in taxpayer support of jobs created by IDA Ireland and ConnectIreland respectively. [11405/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Data (7 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 803. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason a review is being conducted into ConnectIreland; and the reason the programme is being shut down before the results of that review are published. [11406/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Minister assist with access to that consultant?

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question is on promised legislation in respect of access to medicinal cannabis. Ms Vera Twomey is a mother from Cork who, as we speak, is walking from Cork to Dublin. Vera has met the Minister, Deputy Harris, in the past. The reason Vera is taking this action is because her seven year old daughter, Ava, suffers from Dravet syndrome, a severe and debilitating form of epilepsy. Ava can...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is promised legislation. Vera tells me that she has had long frustrating discussions with the Minister, Deputy Harris. She feels she is being led up the garden path. She is petrified for the health and safety of her seven year old child. I want to know from both the Taoiseach and the Minister when the Government will make it happen. It is a seven year old girl, who is seizuring...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Taoiseach tell me when this legislation will be passed and when this child will get the medicine she needs?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is that a "Yes" or a "No"? It sounds like a "No".

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach answer "Yes" or "No"?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The coalition agreement of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, a copy of which I have here, states that the Government will legislate for the abolition of water charges if that is the position of the Oireachtas but the Minister, Deputy Coveney, it seems, has set his face against this. He said that he will breach the process he established and he will not - I emphasise he will not - legislate to...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The wilful waste of water is the fault of the infrastructure and successive Governments, of which the Taoiseach's party and his partners, the Fianna Fáil Party, have been lead exponents, and not, as suggested by the Taoiseach, the result of the population with wild abandon wilfully wasting water. This matter was settled last year at the ballot box. The democratic view of the people was...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Almost one year ago to the day, citizens went to the polls and voted in a general election. The majority of Deputies elected to this Dáil were elected clearly and comprehensively to end punitive water charging. That was the decision of the people. The Fianna Fáil Party, despite its ever shifting policy positions, also made this commitment. The expert commission on water services...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----by the front door or the back door. That is now the emerging view of the Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services, which was set up to produce recommendations on this issue. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, established that process, which is drawing to a conclusion. At the time, the Minister stated he wanted to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (1 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 246. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an application to the primary care reimbursement service for the FreeStyle Libre system to be made available under the medical card and long-term illness scheme; when a decision will be reached on this application; and if he will ensure this device will be made available. [10532/17]

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that answer. I acknowledge, and let it be acknowledged, that the standards and the law protecting our children has become ever more robust over the years. I acknowledge also that the Taoiseach is establishing the commission of investigation and that the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, will bring forward the terms of reference for it, but there is the rub....

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can I also say how sorry I was to hear of the passing of our former colleague, Peter Mathews? Peter was a gentleman to his fingertips. We extend our condolences to his wife, Susan, and to his family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. Earlier this morning the HSE published two reports into failures at a foster home in Waterford over the course of almost three decades. During...