Results 1-20 of 20,471 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The hospital is unsafe. The Taoiseach should acknowledge that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not in question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Tá fáilte romhat, a Edwin. I am not used to seeing you in this setting, but you are very welcome. I am sure we all agree on that. Over the last few days people have listened in horror to the testimony presented at the inquest into the death of 16-year-old Aoife Johnston. Aoife died in University Hospital Limerick on 17 December 2022. The inquest is ongoing and we await its...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach says he is listening, but clearly he is not. If everything were as rosy as he portrays, how is it that University Hospital Limerick consistently has the highest trolley count? How is it that front-line staff and their unions consistently have said they do not have the staff to deal with the level of demand? This is a hospital that is enduring surge every single day. The...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The facts as they present on the ground are that the emergency department is not safe. People do not believe the hospital is safe, and that is a major problem. The panels have been established. Additional staff are needed, as are additional hospital beds. We have to start from a position of acceptance. The Taoiseach can quote whatever figures he wishes. We could go into the history...
- Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: For young Dubliners in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Stardust Ballroom was the place to be. It was a huge venue that hosted cabarets, concerts and discos at weekends. Such was its popularity that you could get a bus from the quays in the city centre directly to the nightclub in Artane. With three bars, a stage and a large dance floor, it was a wonderland for night-time revellers. At...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am happy to confirm for the Taoiseach that the health policy is very much on our website.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, it did not. It was never-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: If this is what we are reduced to - the Taoiseach scouring people's websites and playing to the Gallery and television audience at home-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is rather-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I raised with the Taoiseach yesterday the scandalous situation of kids with scoliosis and spina bifida waiting for their operations. The Taoiseach made some kind of promise and I want to get clarity on it. Parents are watching this very carefully. They are not interested in smart alec responses from anybody. What resources is the Government putting in place to meet the four-month target...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is so utterly dull, that we are hearing this in the Dáil. New Taoiseach, old fogey, young fogey.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did not raise with the Taoiseach the issue of wait times-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I raised the issue of cancellations, and 250,000, that is, a quarter of a million hospital cancellations, is a record. We do not have to compare it with anything. It is a record level of cancellations, and it included-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----800 cancellations of children's chemotherapy appointments. I am astonished by the Taoiseach's approach to this. It appears that he wishes to argue statistical presentational issues. He is not challenging, I am sure, the fact that there were a quarter of a million hospital cancellations. The Taoiseach accepts that, does he? Does he accept also that there were 800 cancellations of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: But that is not the issue. The issue is people's appointments being cancelled.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is ludicrous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: And where there are a quarter of a million cancellations.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: A quarter of a million.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: So Peadar Gilligan is wrong.