Results 1-20 of 20 for kerry speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...80, Dublin; Concepta Dempsey, aged 65, County Louth; Colette Doherty, aged 21, Dublin; baby Doherty, full-term unborn, Dublin; Patrick Fay, aged 47, Dublin and County Louth; Elizabeth Fitzgerald, aged 59, Dublin; Breda Bernadette Grace, aged 35, Dublin and County Kerry; Archie Harper, aged 73, County Monaghan; Antonio Magliocco, aged 37, Dublin and Italy; May McKenna, aged 55, County...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the years since its so-called housing plan started. In the past two years, not one affordable home to rent or buy was delivered by the Government in Dublin city. It is the same story for Galway, Kerry, Wexford, Donegal, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Sligo and Tipperary, and I could go on. The Government is very big on promises but very short on delivery. To make matters worse, the homes...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... Hospitals in Cork and across the region, as the Minister knows, are under massive pressure. Tens of thousands of people are on waiting lists. Elective surgeries at University Hospital Kerry, for example, were cancelled for three whole months. Can the Minister explain all of this delay, and why it is that now we learn construction will not commence until 2026 for this much-needed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in delivering adequate youth mental health received the lowest grade for a second year in a row. The alliance notes that the Maskey report on child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in Kerry, and the Mental Health Commission interim report, revealed just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to failings in the provision of mental health services for children and young people....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The independent review from the Mental Health Commission makes it clear that the failures identified in Kerry CAMHS last year are, sadly, reflected across the community health organisation network. I heard the Taoiseach say earlier that there is a plan to appoint a clinical lead in this area. I have to put to him that much more than that needs to be done, and done urgently. As with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...battle for all the Bethany Home children, who suffered such horrific neglect and abuse. We owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude. Our thoughts are with his daughters, Deborah, Amanda, Gail and Kerry. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal. What engagement has the Taoiseach had with church leaders on their respective contributions to the mother and baby home redress scheme? Has...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last January, the HSE published a review of a junior doctor’s treatment of child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, patients in south Kerry. That review found that 46 children suffered significant harm as a result of inappropriately prescribed medication and a further 181 children were put at risk of harm. The HSE confirms that it has commenced a review of the files of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach correctly described the scandal of inappropriate prescribing of medication to young mental health service users in County Kerry as deeply shocking. The wider public, in particular those availing of mental health services or whose children or young people are availing of mental health services, need an assurance at this time that what happened in Kerry is not happening anywhere...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...are no PCR tests available in 14 counties according to the HSE's portal. There are no PCR tests available in Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Meath, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, Kerry, Laois, Louth and Leitrim. For people experiencing symptoms or in a household where someone is experiencing symptoms, not being able to access these tests is frustrating and...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Ceann Comhairle has already said, Jackie Healy-Rae was and will forever be remembered as one of the great characters of the House and Irish political life generally. His trademark wit, his plain speaking, his rich melodic Kerry accent and, of course, his flat cap, were all part of this character. While he was sometimes teased or lampooned he was undoubtedly one of the most astute and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...patients to stay away. That follows the dangerous level of overcrowding we have witnessed in Cork University Hospital, in University Hospital Limerick, Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar and Kerry and on and on it goes. Hospital waiting lists continue to grow and we now have the worst waiting lists in Europe. Nurses and midwives have had to engage in industrial action, and general...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and is on top of this. All of the evidence contradicts that. The evidence tells us that this is a crisis and that the Government cannot manage it. It tells us that this is a disaster. Staff in Kerry told Deputy Ferris so earlier today and people are saying the same in Cork. I was in Mayo last week, where the emergency department and its staff is under enormous pressure. The Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ambulance in question was one of eight that were queueing outside the hospital waiting to offload patients and it never came. This man was eventually taken to hospital by a paramedic crew from County Kerry. This is no way for our health service to operate and yet it is the reality. It is in a state of perpetual chaos and no meaningful action is being taken to address the extent of this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (5 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the six additional protective services units scheduled for delivery by the end of quarter 4 2018 have been established in DMR south central, Waterford, Kerry, Kilkenny, Carlow, Limerick and Galway Garda divisions; the status of the appointment or assignment of the full personnel complement for each unit, and the status of the completion of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (11 Dec 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the six additional protective services units for Q4 2018 have been established in DMR south central, Waterford, Kerry, Kilkenny, Carlow, Limerick and Galway Garda divisions; and the buildings, office equipment, cars, technology and trained Garda personnel in place in each. [52224/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...that contract will be signed in January. Will he confirm that again for the House? When will Members and communities receive details of the locations that are to be connected next year? I was in Kerry recently where the Healy-Raes live-----

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Committee on Health earlier today that he will not be standing down as director general of the HSE. While Mr. O'Brien was making that declaration, I received a call from Emma Mhic Mhathúna from Kerry. She asked me to raise her case with the Taoiseach. Emma is 37 years old and is the mother of five children aged between two and 15 years of age. She received a clear result from a...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...I hope all of this work can be done in a respectful, well-informed, calm and fair atmosphere. The harrowing experiences of Joanne Hayes, and all the horrific events surrounding what became known as the Kerry babies scandal of more than 33 years ago, have played themselves out again in heartbreaking detail in the past 24 hours. The scale of the abuse Joanne endured at the hands of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do not mention Kerry and what it does in the football.

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to education and counselling are critical components to breaking a cycle that began with the State's failure to protect our vulnerable children. A former resident of an industrial school in County Kerry wrote last month in a letter to The Irish Times of wanting to give her children what she had been denied, an education. This woman's right to education was denied by the State. Her father...