Results 1-20 of 20,508 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Media Sector (2 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail Global Ireland Media Challenge Fund reporting or projects to be carried out by news organisations which received grant-aid in the 2024 round of funding. [20101/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [17374/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The British Government's legacy Act is a cynical and callous attempt to block victims and families from ever getting justice through the courts and to hide the role of British state forces and their agencies in the conflict. Today, that Act takes effect, to their very great shame. I have raised this issue many times previously. I accept that the Government has lodged an interstate case...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach may well talk about living within budgets. He is hardly a poster boy for that. I quoted the €650 million a year on agency staff. I could also quote the €140 million a year on management and legal consultancy at peak in 2022. Heaven forbid that I would go near the €2.2 billion on his children's hospital that has yet to be delivered.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Save the homily on living within budgets for someone else. The facts are these; at University Hospital Limerick, as was confirmed to the Oireachtas committee, every single day, there are patients who are deemed sick enough to require admission who cannot be admitted. That is the reality day-on-day.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The hospital does not have enough beds or the required level of staff. The Taoiseach quoted a figure of 2,268 additional posts. He knows full well that in previous years, that has been as high as 7,000. The system is stripped bare. I have set out the facts for him. These are facts from people on the front line with regard to dental services, mental health capacity, and all across the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: You do not let young women die on trolleys or lying across chairs. That is what you do not do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is my policy. You do not allow young women to die in a hospital, lying on chairs. How is that for a policy?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: More than 11,000 patients waited on hospital trolleys last month. University Hospital Limerick again had the highest figure of any hospital in the State, closely followed by University Hospital Galway. The trolley crisis is now a year-round emergency. Our hospitals are under enormous and sustained pressure. Yesterday the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, announced that a HSE support...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the updated guidelines/procedures on the use of school buildings outside of school hours will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19704/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any consultation has taken place with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability and Youth regarding the updating of guidelines/procedures on the use of school buildings outside of school hours, noting the challenges being faced by afterschool services in securing sustainable use of school buildings to accommodate afterschool services;...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Outside of the UN Charter?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Well then test it so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It should be tested by means of a referendum.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: So leave it alone.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [11793/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I had intended to raise with the Taoiseach the issue of extending the franchise for the presidential elections because the Government has dragged its heels on that matter which is most unfortunate. I want to return to the issue of neutrality because we need to nail this nonsense the Government is trying to peddle that somehow removing the need for a UN mandate is a minor modification of...