Results 1-18 of 18 for cavan speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I mentioned a number of counties - Louth, Mayo, Sligo and Tipperary - and could have added Cavan, Leitrim, Offaly and Roscommon. These are the official figures. This is an official record of the Government's abysmal failure - the failure of the State to deliver affordable homes to purchase and rent. By the targets the Government set itself, it has failed. It is a big fail. I have never...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of disability services in County Monaghan. Dozens of families attended. For years, they have been crying out for a children's overnight respite care service. They are currently dependent on a Cavan-based service which is completely overstretched. They have heard Ministers promise that this will be resolved but in fact the situation on the ground has gotten much worse. They believe...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., agus maith thú. I also wish the new Sinn Féin MEP for the Midlands-North West, Chris MacManus, the very best of luck in his new role as he takes up the post previously held by the new Teachta for Cavan-Monaghan, Deputy Carthy. I know from experience that being an MEP is no easy job, so I wish Chris well as he takes up the baton from Matt. I commend both of them on all of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...not been addressed. There is no point in telling farmers that they can act collectively and, at some point in the future, achieve a price increase. They need it now. I was on a picket line in County Cavan with farmers who told me that this is either sorted now or they will not be in business next year. Pushing this issue down the pipe is not going to work. It is unedifying for the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...have future implications too. Some of the worst delays for occupational therapy are in Mayo, where there are 138 children under five who have been waiting for more than a year for basic treatment. In Cavan-Monaghan, 523 children are on a waiting list. In Cork, 679 kids over five face delays for care. The window of opportunity for these therapies is short and the significant delays...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 34. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to County Cavan; the engagements he undertook; and if he met with stakeholders to discuss the impact of Brexit. [45719/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..."Whistleblower" was broadcast last night on RTÉ television. It illustrated again in some detail the horrific treatment of Maurice McCabe for daring to speak out about Garda malpractice in the Cavan Monaghan division. We are agreed that Maurice is a good and honourable man of incredible strength. He, his wife, Lorraine, and their family deserve not only our support and solidarity...

Leader's Questions (11 Jul 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I can tell the Taoiseach why Olivia is still in one of only three intensive care unit beds in Cavan General Hospital. She is there unnecessarily and is aware of that. She is very distressed by it. The reason she is there is that the HSE, despite the medical advice and view that she ought to go home, refuses to fund the home care package. I beg to differ with the Taoiseach. It is...

Leader's Questions (11 Jul 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and from County Leitrim. She is the mother of two young children, Colette and Ronan. She suffers from an aggressive form of Parkinson's disease. Olivia is currently in the intensive care unit of Cavan General Hospital. She has been there for the past seven months. Olivia has been on delayed discharge since January and remains in hospital six months after she was ready to go home....

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... The motion makes reference to the really horrific circumstances of mother and child mortalities or injuries. It cites Portiuncula University Hospital, University Hospital Galway, Portlaoise, Cavan and Drogheda. There was a time when week on week and month on month one waited in the horrific expectation of another bad story from our maternity services for the women of Ireland. ...

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Government has failed to protect whistleblowers. A series of allegations has been made about how Sergeant Maurice McCabe was treated after he raised concerns about the investigation of serious crime in the Cavan-Monaghan division. Sergeant McCabe and John Wilson were smeared and bullied. The O'Higgins report said such actions contributed to what it called a continued "closing of ranks"....

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. O’Driscoll also accept that Ms Justice Reynolds, the judge in the case of County Cavan farmer Douglas Fannin, whom I name because his name is in the public domain, whom I believe would wish to be named and who won, was also very critical of the behaviour of the SIU? Does Mr. O’Driscoll recall that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...who, I think we both acknowledge, are experts in the field of agriculture and the experiences of farmers. He was moved also by the outcome of this particular case, that of Mr. Douglas Fannin in Cavan, and made the changes which some now regard as cosmetic and which Mr. O'Driscoll has described in detail. We do not seem to be getting off first base here because there is a fundamental...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Standing Order 57. This is the worst imaginable start for the commission of investigation. The job set out in the terms of reference is to investigate serious allegations of Garda malpractice in Cavan and Monaghan. To insist that those terms of reference would go through the Oireachtas mar dhea without the opportunity for democratic scrutiny, debate or amendment, if needs be, was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. Clarke. That is very helpful. There was notice of it in October. When the Commissioner got the information on the trawl in Cavan Monaghan and the material one individual was printing off, was it the same information as the information brought to his attention in October or was it additional material from the PULSE system?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...pointed out that the summit is an opportunity to advertise the county and the surrounding areas. Fermanagh will be showcased, and accommodation in the surrounding districts, including Donegal and Cavan, will be booked out by delegations and the international press. The organisation of the summit has led to considerable disruption to the daily lives of citizens. A-level exams may be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was as a result of a turn of events in Cavan-Monaghan. He said that at that point the investigation was under way and that the information was brought forward, as far as he was concerned, by anonymous sources. Is that a fair summation of the evidence he has given today?

Care of the Elderly (7 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...just four of the 13 HSE board meetings held since his appointment last June. The HSE's regional service plan 2012 states that across the entire north-east region - which covers Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan and Dublin city and county - between 200 to 250 additional long-term care beds will be provided in the current year. The same document also states that in view of the staffing and...