Results 1-20 of 97 for cork speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The people of Cork have been waiting over a decade for their new hospital. Site selection for the hospital was four years late. The Government had said the hospital would be open this year but now says it will not be fully operational until 2028. It has taken over a year to appoint a design team, so we have had missed target after missed target while people in Cork and the Munster region...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in 2021, it is clear that the funds simply absorbed the 10% stamp duty and then carried on as normal. Nearly 700 of these homes were snapped up here in Dublin, but the vultures also bought up homes in Cork, Carlow, Westmeath, Kildare, Wicklow, Limerick and beyond. Their claws extend far beyond the capital and the damage they are doing is very real. If the bulk purchasing were not bad...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...exist. I have to say that I was not surprised at all to hear the outcome of this study. Anybody who deals with communities and families living in the blocks of flats right across Dublin city, Cork and elsewhere, will know that they have been allowed to go to rack and ruin and are desperately in need of regeneration. In my own area I can cite Ballybough House, Larkin House, O'Brien Hall,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...cope with soaring prices across the board. Last week, I spoke to one stressed-out father of two who told me his mortgage repayments have increased from €800 to €1,200 per month. This individual is from Cork, as it happens. I could feel the pressure in his voice when he told me his family have started to cut back on essentials to try to keep up with the massive hikes. ...

LGBTQI+ Equality: Statements (20 Jun 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...is for the better. It is an Ireland of hope and determination. Diversity is our strength. Sinn Féin believe equality must be a cornerstone of any genuine republic. From Bray to Bangor and from Cork to Cushendall, everyone must be free to be who they truly are loudly and proudly. I believe that Ireland can be a home for all, a place where difference is not just tolerated but...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 920. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the delivery of two specialist endometriosis centres for complex care located at Cork University Maternity Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will confirm when patient referrals will be accepted at these services. [24949/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...as an acceptable level of performance, then God help us all. That is all I can say. I have given four examples. I mentioned Aoife Ní Chéileachair and told the Taoiseach about the mother in Cork, the family in Wicklow and the young woman in Dublin. We could go on and on. Despite the Taoiseach's glib response to me, the facts are that in each of these cases, these people have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...she may have to leave her job as a result. She is not alone. The Government's decision to remove the eviction ban has thrown thousands of renters to the wolves. It is a nightmare for the mother in Cork who fears her daughter will have to leave the autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit in her national school because they cannot find alternative accommodation in the local area and for the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of the Taoiseach's Government. What does this mean for hard-pressed renters? Across the State it means an average monthly rent of over €1,600. In the Taoiseach's neck of the woods, renters in Cork city will fork out over €1,700 a month. Get this - in this city, Dublin, it means paying an average monthly rent of €2,258, or a staggering €28,000 a year. Has...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., Disability, Integration and Youth the efforts that his Department has made to identify the burial places of approximately 850 children known to have died in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork but the locations of their remains are unknown. [45527/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last year, the parents of 18 babies born at Cork University Maternity Hospital were informed that their children's organs were sent to Belgium for incineration, without their knowledge or consent. This happened on two occasions between March and April 2020. The bereaved parents had believed that the organs of their babies, who had been subject to autopsy, would be cremated or buried in a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...or in hospital shortly after being transferred from the institution, but there are burial records for just 64 of these children. When this matter is raised with the Minister he passes the buck to Cork City Council, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and An Bord Pleanála in terms of future development of the site. The passing of the Institutional Burials Bill...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hang on. It is not a Cork school. The Taoiseach cannot go seizing our schools.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the table and elderly people who are choosing between heating and eating. The Taoiseach is asking these people who are in dire straits to wait. That is just not right. At Saturday's protest in Cork, Ms Catríona Twomey who runs Cork Penny Dinners - she is a great lady and the Taoiseach knows her well - said, "...we fed over 500 people today ... I can get through everything else but...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...registered a record number of people on trolleys for a hospital for a 24-hour period. That same day, trolley figures across the State hit a two-year high. Yesterday, in the Taoiseach's own neck of the woods, Cork University Hospital registered its highest number of patients recorded on trolleys since the trolley count began. The big question that arises this morning is what exactly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...'s housing market. This image shows a converted hallway in Dublin. This would knock you back €910 a month. That is probably a snitch in the Taoiseach's mind. What about this image? It is from Cork. In this particular rental accommodation, you could touch your fridge if you stretched your feet out of your bed. That is the reality for generation rent. Do not dare talk to me...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...study, using data from the Central Statistics Office, CSO, and ESRI, which are hardly ranters or ravers, show house prices will be at €500,000 on average, or more than that in Dublin and Cork, respectively, and rent will increase by 36% and 50%, respectively. If the Taoiseach thinks that reflects a policy that is working then he is even more adrift from reality than even I feared,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's approach to housing is failing miserably. Dublin City Council and Cork City Council commissioned KPMG to conduct analysis of future housing needs as part for their development plans for the period 2022 to 2028. These reports are frightening. They reveal that the housing crisis is set to get even worse in the coming years, even if the Government delivers on current policy....

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...not access PCR tests and he told me that this was not a problem. Today, there 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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...s feet, but it is his responsibility as Taoiseach and that of the Government to respond to the crisis for households and businesses. For example, Lorraine from the Taoiseach's neck of the woods in Cork sent me her bills. She sent me a bill from May 2021 and one from October 2021 for heating her home and in that time her bill has jumped €100. What is the Government doing for...