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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (7 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 316. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a decision on their carer's allowance application. [5717/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (7 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 424. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been advised that services outlined in an assessment of needs report that are essential to address the needs of the person are not currently available to them; when these services will become available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5687/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 428. To ask the Minister for Health the current expected wait time for children to have assessment of needs carried out in Dublin north central; and the current number of children waiting on assessment. [5701/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that have had an assessment of needs carried out by the HSE since 2015 to date, in Dublin north central broken down by month. [5702/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (7 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 430. To ask the Minister for Health the current expected wait time for children to have speech and language therapy in Dublin north central; and the current number of children waiting on treatment and receiving treatment respectively. [5703/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (7 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 431. To ask the Minister for Health the current expected wait time for children to receive occupational therapy in Dublin north central; and the current number of children waiting on assessment for occupational therapy and receiving treatment respectively. [5704/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 432. To ask the Minister for Health the current expected wait time for children to receive physiotherapy in Dublin North-Central; and the current numbers of children awaiting assessment for physiotherapy and receiving treatment, respectively. [5705/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is a terrible answer. In 2015 the Government agreed to take the case of the hooded men back to the European Court of Human Rights. That was the right decision. Last night Channel 4 revealed that papers uncovered by the Pat Finucane Centre in Derry exposed at least four known cases of waterboarding by the British army and RUC. The Tánaiste is aware that waterboarding is an...

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste's response, while not unexpected, is nonetheless alarming and I am sure it will cause alarm among teachers, students and parents alike. The alarm resides in the following simple matter. Why can no Government Minister commit, as a matter of principle, to equal pay for equal work? That is what this issue boils down to. Nobody expects pay restoration to happen overnight and...

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question concerned the Government.

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should answer the question, which was on equal pay for work of equal value.

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Government not believe in pay equality?

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The result of a ballot of members of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, ASTI, is expected to be announced today. The ballot was held because of major issues surrounding teachers' pay as well as issues surrounding supervision and substitution duties. Despite some minor concessions on the Government's part, the deal put to teachers remains largely the same as that proposed...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Who took the decision to move the staff?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I absolutely agree with Deputy Connolly. The Chairman ought to challenge that decision. We all appreciate the staff can only do what they have the resources to do. That is taken absolutely. I now have a sense that there is messing going on and I am not speaking about the staff.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not referring to you, a Chathaoirligh. There is political messing happening on this issue. We have been stalled in completing our work not least because of a staffing issue on the one hand, as it now emerges. On the other hand the political system, in the form of the Government, is saying that it is stalling the ball on a commission it had already committed to on the basis that it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a runner at this stage. It potentially brings this committee into disrepute. We are being treated like patsies. I am certainly not prepared to be part of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 100%

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise one issue. There has been a ruling in the courts relating to an action taken by a previous witness to this committee. This committee was vindicated. There was a lot of talk at the time that the action was initiated against this committee and indeed, against the State, about the remit of the committee, the conduct of its members and so on. It would be useful to get a report...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 50. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of the clinical stream within the HSE tasked with the issue of interacting mental illness and addiction which leaves many persons in severe mental health distress struggling to find adequate treatment. [4633/17]

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