Results 1,921-1,940 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- 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.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, that is not what is required.
- Appointment of Ministers of State (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a farce.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. First, the obvious farce of a Minister who has recused himself from SIPO responsibilities presenting to answer questions on SIPO tomorrow is self-evident and it points to the seriousness of the situation in respect of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. I raise the issue in that regard on "statements", it seems: a statement from the Minister followed by statements or reaction...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is the Taoiseach's view of a Minister that flouts rules and laws like these?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Which was declared.