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Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation final report in advance of its publication in 2021. [61494/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ashling Murphy was not the first woman to die in a random violent attack as she went about her business in broad daylight on the banks of the Grand Canal. Others have met violent deaths going to work, coming home, in daylight and in dark. The outpouring of grief and anger across the land is a powerful expression of solidarity with the Murphy family who now face the unimaginable heartbreak...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Despite the widespread rejection of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters, the Government has based its redress scheme on its findings. Survivors and families have been consistent in the demand for inclusive redress, redress that recognises the human rights abuse of forced family separation. The Government has ignored the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Survivors of Ireland's mother and baby homes are considering taking legal action to enable them to gain access to their medical records. Survivors have submitted subject to access requests under the general data protection regulation, GDPR, to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth as the relevant data collector, and they have been told that their records...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department as a data controller will grant access to the medical records for those survivors of mother and baby homes who did not nominate a medical practitioner when requesting their records as he is obligated to do under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation. [46117/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I simply want to ask who leaked details of the final report of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation? Who did it? Can the Taoiseach name the person? I am sure that it has been established. A limited number of ye had access to it. Who did that, please?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach said, the examination is into this particular leaking of details of the mother and baby home commission's report but, more generally, around what is called unauthorised dissemination of documentation and other information relating to the work of the Cabinet. My God, the Taoiseach has his hands full because I do not know whether a previous administration has been so leaky....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: What conversation did the Taoiseach have with faith leaders prior to and following the publication of the commission's report into mother and baby homes? What conversations has the Taoiseach had with them in respect of the whole scenario around adoptions, including illegal adoptions and the role of various churches and religious orders in all of this? In the previous round, I put a question...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The "RTÉ Investigates" programme, "Who Am I?" catalogued trauma and distress. While this generated some shock among the public, those who were not shocked by all of this are those who have lived their lives seeking the answer to that profoundly simply question, "who am I?". Those also not shocked were the State and its agencies, which have known that illegal adoption and the illegal...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I support Deputy Gannon's call with regard to the mother and baby homes commission. It would be an act of extraordinary bad faith, even by the standards of this Government, to cynically allow a motion to be passed by the Dáil with no intention of acting on it. The matters set out in the course of the debate are of the utmost seriousness. They deserve the serious attention of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Feb 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 521. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation destroyed audio recordings of 550 interviews given to its Confidential Committee; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that section 43(2) of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 provides...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: By now most of us have had the opportunity to read and digest the commission's report into the brutal and shameful operation of mother and baby homes in this State. More importantly, the survivors themselves and their advocates have had that opportunity. The publication of this report ought to have been a moment that brought recognition, some relief and some comfort to survivors, who are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I extend my thoughts and sympathies to the families of the 93 people whose deaths from Covid-19 were reported yesterday and to all those who have been bereaved in the course of this pandemic. We are living through what are difficult times for many families. The Government has abandoned plans to reopen special education schools and facilities this week. The Minister for Education, Deputy...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...drochíde agus díghrádaithe a bhí ann. Tá an Taoiseach tar éis leithscéal a ghabháil ar son an Stát, ach tá na chéad chéimeanna eile ríthábhachtach. Yesterday was a day of mixed emotions for the survivors of mother and baby homes. After five years, the report of the commission was finally published and it was a very...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Cuirim fáilte roimh an gach duine. Yesterday was a difficult day right across the island. There were record numbers of deaths were North and South and it is only appropriate to express our sympathy to those who have been bereaved. The mother and baby homes report was also published. We will have an opportunity to discuss that report in due course today. For now, I wish to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 400. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the method by which the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is obliged to make every reasonable effort to notify persons who gave evidence to the confidential committee of their entitlement to request that their personal information be redacted prior to that evidence being deposited with his Department as part of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. At 8 o’clock this morning Joanna Sloan, a young nurse in Belfast, was the first person in Ireland to receive a vaccine for Covid-19. A little earlier a 90-year-old Fermanagh woman, Margaret Keenan, was the first person in Britain to receive the jab. We now await the vaccine roll-out plan for this part of the island. There is at last...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to the records of the interdepartmental committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries or, as it is more commonly known, the McAleese report. In its statement on mother and baby homes last month, the Government committed to ensuring that the rights of all citizens to access personal information about themselves and their rights under GDPR are fully...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries from 2013 to date; the number of these requests denied year on year for the same period, in tabular form; and the additional data protection expertise his Department will secure following the Government statement on mother and baby homes. [36823/20]

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...mé ag caint i gcoinne an rúin seo. Níl muinín againn as Leo Varadkar. Bhris sé na rialacha agus is gá dó a bheith freagrach as sin. This Government has been in office for just four months and in that short period we have witnessed displays of incompetence and chaos of record proportions. This Government was born of necessity. The old guard came...