Results 11,301-11,320 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 against the withdrawal of resource hours for the current school year and why the original deciding officer is overseeing the appeal despite this being in contravention of the National Council for Special Education rules. [44031/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Certification (8 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund funded training courses are not recognised by SOLAS and if she will reconsider this policy. [43964/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a person (details supplied) in County Dublin is losing an entitlement to a special needs assistant; if she will re-instate this entitlement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44029/15]
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is a disgraceful position from the Labour Party. It is pathetic. I am not interested in Fianna Fáil.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not acceptable for the Minister to say to families, such as Máire's, that their predicament is not acceptable when the Government has a hand in creating their misery. That is the truth. The coalition has been in government for almost five years and its record on social housing build is pathetic. I am shocked that the Minister and his colleagues repeatedly give out that message...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, we cannot.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, it is not.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, it is not.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not.
- 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.