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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The controversy surrounding the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe's undisclosed election donations raises again Fine Gael's relationship with big business and its influence at the heart of Government. The whole saga carries the stench of cronyism and favours for insiders. The businessman at the centre of the controversy, Michael Stone, issued a statement today in...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (24 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Traveller Education Strategy committed to in the 2020 programme for Government will be completed. [2740/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (24 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 421. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to add socio-economic status as a tenth ground of discrimination to relevant legislation. [2733/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Family Support Services (24 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 586. To ask the Minister for Health the current supports available to parents and families bereaved by sudden unexplained death in childhood. [3020/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 587. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that the Government is undertaking to research, raise awareness and collate information regarding sudden unexplained death in childhood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3021/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (19 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider the establishment of a rapporteur for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence to monitor Ireland’s compliance with its domestic and international legal obligations under the Istanbul Convention and implementation of the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. [2557/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Support Services (19 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will establish a network of family contact centres to enable supervised meetings or handovers of children between parents who are no longer together or where domestic abuse has occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2558/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (19 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the maximum number of personal assistance hours that can be provided to a person per week under the scheme. [2453/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (19 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 296. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated by his Department to the personal assistant scheme for people with disabilities for the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; and the personal assistant scheme budget allocated to each CHO area for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [2460/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (19 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 297. To ask the Minister for Health when he will address the deficit in the personal assistant scheme funding, as identified by community healthcare organisations. [2461/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (19 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 298. To ask the Minister for Health his response to the shortfalls identified in the ESRI Research Bulletin Personal Assistance Services in Ireland: A Capability Approach to Understanding the Lived Experience of Disabled People, published on 2 December 2022. [2462/23]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Across the State, tens of thousands of homeowners and tenants impacted by Celtic tiger building defects have been waiting to hear the Government plans for a redress scheme. They are living in apartments, duplexes and houses that have very serious fire safety and other structural defects. The cost of remediating defects for these homeowners and tenants, defects that they did not cause, can...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: If there was any doubt as to the Taoiseach's ambiguity, shall we say, around the need for accountability among his members and his ministerial team, he has certainly played his hand now.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The very idea that members of the Government - members of the Cabinet - would not present themselves here and make themselves amenable to reasonable questions from the Opposition is absolutely unacceptable. Try as the Taoiseach may to muddy the waters or distract, he will fail because ultimately he is in government. Members of the Government are the decision-makers and they are answerable...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----as a member of Government.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: So make it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have broken no rules.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Wow.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: That was not a political donation.