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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (17 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 305. To ask the Minister for Health if his officials have submitted their report regarding the North Inner City Drug and Alcohol Task Force to him. [57177/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the high-level steering board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, to oversee the implementation of the high-level action plan for the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. [52764/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the senior officials group chaired by his Department to provide a strategic overview of the implementation of the sustainable development goals. [52762/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service unit of his Department. [51354/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Figures given to our health spokesperson, Deputy Cullinane, indicate there were 260 chemotherapy appointments cancelled in quarter 3 of this year. One hundred and sixty of these appointments were for children. What is the Government's plan to ensure these children and thousands more in need of appointments get the care they need when they need it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a measure of how far astray the Government has gone and how badly it is failing that the Taoiseach relies on misinformation and attacks across the floor-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----rather than acknowledging in the first instance the very real mental health consequences of what is a housing catastrophe and emergency. The Minister cannot even accept that it is an emergency. Does the Taoiseach accept that it is an emergency? The record of the Government, despite the Taoiseach's bluster, is that house prices, rents and homelessness are up. I will try to be of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that build big, fancy apartment blocks in areas such as those I represent. People with no homes look at those apartment blocks, say they are nice and that they will never live in them because they cannot afford to do so and certainly will never own a home there. That is not the answer. I asked about the targets. Can we please have clarity on that matter?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The targets are wrong, according to the Department and the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The housing emergency has dominated life in Ireland for more than a decade. It is a story of an entire generation locked out of affordable housing and locked out of opportunity. It is a generation that works hard and does all the right things but still sees their aspirations pushed further away. Their lives are on hold and their futures are uncertain. Over the past four days, I have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Are the 8,000 new builds?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach describes Housing for All as the most ambitious plan. He talks about significant impact and indicators of success, yet all the evidence on the ground in the real world is of a social emergency. There is catastrophic failure in the housing market that has implications for people's quality of life, their life options and chances and their mental health. Younger people are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [54589/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 3 of 2022 will be published. [54590/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the Prague summit of the European Political Community. [51352/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am delighted to see the Ceann Comhairle back in the Chair. The Taoiseach stated that energy and energy security were a significant focus of the Prague summit, and they continue to be for European political leaders. In that regard, I wish to raise our planning system, particularly An Bord Pleanála, which has been in crisis for some time. The difficulties run deeper than the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Alliance for Insurance Reform has stated that insurance companies are taking their policyholders and the Government for a ride when it comes to the insurance reform plan. Business and voluntary organisations have seen no reduction in their insurance premiums while a report published today shows that motor insurance has fallen by only 2% in the past year. The value of awards has reduced...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I support the Taoiseach's comments regarding the importance of population screening and the importance for women to participate in CervicalCheck. All of us who avail of the service are well aware of its absolute value. Vicky’s ambition to bringing screening home can be achieved. It was a catastrophic error for the laboratory services not to be available and for screening not to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday the sad news broke that Vicky Phelan had passed away. Her two children, Amelia and Darragh have lost their beautiful mother so early in their lives. Our hearts go out to her husband Jim, to her heartbroken parents, Gaby and John, and to Vicky's family and friends who are devastated by her death. The nation mourns with them. Vicky Phelan was a force of nature. In pursuit of...

Death of Vicky Phelan: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Vicky said, "The hardest part for me, it's not the dying, it's the leaving my children behind. That's what breaks my heart." Yesterday, at just past midnight, Vicky's battle with terminal cervical cancer ended, her young life ended, her life stolen by a vicious disease, her life stolen by profound failures of the State, of Government and of the HSE. Enormous and endless tributes flow now...