Results 81-100 of 20,543 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: If this is what we are reduced to - the Taoiseach scouring people's websites and playing to the Gallery and television audience at home-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is rather-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I raised with the Taoiseach yesterday the scandalous situation of kids with scoliosis and spina bifida waiting for their operations. The Taoiseach made some kind of promise and I want to get clarity on it. Parents are watching this very carefully. They are not interested in smart alec responses from anybody. What resources is the Government putting in place to meet the four-month target...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is so utterly dull, that we are hearing this in the Dáil. New Taoiseach, old fogey, young fogey.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did not raise with the Taoiseach the issue of wait times-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I raised the issue of cancellations, and 250,000, that is, a quarter of a million hospital cancellations, is a record. We do not have to compare it with anything. It is a record level of cancellations, and it included-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----800 cancellations of children's chemotherapy appointments. I am astonished by the Taoiseach's approach to this. It appears that he wishes to argue statistical presentational issues. He is not challenging, I am sure, the fact that there were a quarter of a million hospital cancellations. The Taoiseach accepts that, does he? Does he accept also that there were 800 cancellations of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: But that is not the issue. The issue is people's appointments being cancelled.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is ludicrous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: And where there are a quarter of a million cancellations.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: A quarter of a million.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: So Peadar Gilligan is wrong.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hospitals are under enormous pressure. Chronic overcrowding means constant chaos in emergency departments. We are all painfully aware of the year-round crisis, which sees hundreds of patients suffer the indignity of lying on trolleys. More than 600 people were on trolleys in our hospitals yesterday; the number is 528 today. However, a not so visible but real consequence of overcrowding...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent Munich Security Conference. [8774/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [13984/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [9141/24]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has regularly held up as an achievement during his time as Minister for higher education the area of apprenticeships. We all agree that they are essential. I wish to raise with him an issue, however, because, despite all his rhetoric, our craft apprenticeship system is in fact in crisis. The number of craft apprentices waiting to undertake their off-the-job training has risen...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----the parents want to know that now he is Taoiseach, he will finally honour a promise he made many years ago.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach says that nobody wants to see children in agony and pain, but that is exactly what we see. I spoke last night to one mother whose child is now no longer a child. They are now 19 and inoperable. Why are they inoperable? They are inoperable because they waited and waited and waited. The mother said directly that they followed all the right protocols and all the care paths -...