Results 10,961-10,980 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has not answered.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Tension is right.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Every day families are being made homeless. Thousands of children will sleep in unsuitable emergency accommodation tonight. Home repossessions, rising rents and a shortage of council housing are the causes of family homelessness. Councils not only have housing waiting lists, they now also have waiting lists for emergency accommodation. Families are being forced to sleep rough, overhold on...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Would Deputy Durkan sit down?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 42. To ask the Minister for Health the envisaged spend on health infrastructure as proposed under Building on Recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40610/15]
- Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The hour is late, the Government benches are bare and the Minister of State, predictably, has stood up and incanted the same robotic garbage to which we have been listening for the past five years. If he wants the factual position, this is it. In 2014 the number of additional families entering emergency accommodation in Dublin alone was 40 a month, a doubling of the figure in the...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (1 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 363. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to facilitate the adoption of orphans from Syria as part of the Government's participation in the European Union's refugee resettlement programme. [42361/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 will be provided with a place at a school that meets that person's special needs. [42364/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide sufficient resources to a school (details supplied) in County Dublin to ensure that it can cater for all the children with special needs who are on its waiting list for a placement in 2016. [42365/15]
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise my party's objections also. I stated on the previous matters that 20 minutes was woefully inadequate. This, equally, is the case here. Twenty minutes is derisory. It does not give the scope for what could properly be called a debate, and on an issue with such urgency and importance for so many at this time, I am at a loss as to why Government would insist on such a short...
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: To reiterate, while it is welcome that there is debate on these matters, 20 minutes is inadequate for agreements such as these. They should be properly scrutinised. It is almost cynical to allow a tokenistic slot of time to tick a box in order that there is some debate, but then to guillotine it after 20 short minutes. We object on that basis.
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is obvious not just coming into Christmas but coming into the election season that there is a furious pace in ramming through as much legislation as possible. We have no objection to late sittings - far from it - but it is, of course, always better to have more notice than was given in this instance. There is a problem with affording 20-minute slots for debates in the Dáil, as these...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is every need for this disorder.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is disgraceful.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That report is happening here and not in the North.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste has some cheek to call for constructive engagement from nurses who are at the end of their tether. They are stressed out of their minds and managing an impossible and utterly chaotic situation in our hospitals. It takes gall of the highest order for the Tánaiste to appeal to them to be constructive. They are more than constructive. Every day they are managing the...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Tánaiste maintain a position of confidence in him? I refer to those who attend Beaumont, the Mater, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and hospitals across the State. I ask the Tánaiste to tell them how she will ensure patient safety.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: On trolleys.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: He passed the buck.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is a crazy answer.