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Other Questions: Tax Code (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the commitment to phase out of the universal social charge; and the level of economic risk he attributes to this policy. [10544/16]

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: It behoves the Tánaiste to answer the question. Where is Dáil reform now?

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Burton is a paragon of honesty.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Programme for Government Initiatives (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the quantum of the fund referred to in the commitment in the programme for Government to establish a rainy day fund; and the way in which it will operate. [10545/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary school places currently available for children with autism in Dublin 15 for September 2016. [10860/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options and services available for children with autism who have been refused secondary school places in Dublin 15 for September 2016; and the accommodations his Department is making to ensure that they can access education in their locality. [10861/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his time frame to end pay inequality for teachers, given that these measures have been in place for five years. [10739/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the time frame for a review of pay inequality for teachers, given the proposed establishment of a public service pay commission. [10740/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 137. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the continued inequality in teachers' pay and for the delay in reviewing pay for teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10741/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 187. To ask the Minister for Health why he and the Health Service Executive did not send a representative to the International Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Symposium in New York in the United States of America especially given that 25 British delegates attended. [10906/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if he and the Health Service Executive intend to send a medical representative to the Baltimore, Maryland Conference in the United States of America in July 2016 where the findings of the Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Symposium will be formally delivered. [10907/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 189. To ask the Minister for Health why the Health Service Executive, via the TAS, advises applicants who suffer from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome that they are not eligible for cover to travel abroad for treatment on the basis that treatment is available in Ireland, given that the Executive has stated that following its patient consultation process in 2014 it compiled a submission which was part...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (18 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 190. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to update the eligible illnesses under the long term illness scheme, including adding Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. [10909/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (17 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 405 and 406 of 26 April 2016, the date of the first time Bus Éireann informed his Department and the subsequent dates in each year since 2005 on which it informed his Department that it had made no profit from school transport in a particular financial year in tabular form and to clarify his...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am assuming this is the sole occasion on which Deputy O'Dea will give way for me to speak.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are 70 days on, a Cheann Comhairle, and we are still waiting. Waiting for Godot, although this is not so much Beckett as Flann O'Brien in the qualities of its absurdity. What do we know? We know that those in Fianna Fáil, despite all their protestations to the contrary, are prepared to put Fine Gael and Deputy Enda Kenny back into Government. We know of their absolute cynicism in...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Sinn Féin will provide constructive and robust opposition to Deputy Kenny and his Government, if instated. We want him to know that we will be here on behalf of all those who rely on good Government and good decisions and who rely on change. The people really need fairness, and they understand what that word means because they have experienced so much unfairness, exclusion and...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to share time with Deputy Ó Broin, if I may; I will have ten minutes and he will have five.

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: First, I am pleased that Members finally are discussing these matters in the Dáil. It is of course not the first time, nor will it be the last, that issues of crime, criminality, gangland events and community safety have arisen in this House. They are ongoing issues and, as the Minister has acknowledged, they are a source of considerable distress and fear nationwide. This has been...