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Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...take pride in our city. As a matter of fact, he has a cheek to make that statement. I know well that the inner city communities I represent do not feel safe. They are scourged by antisocial behaviour, drug pushing and crime. They have been abandoned because Garda resources are spread too thin. They are angry because Fine Gael has undermined and underfunded investment in community,...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The streets of Dublin's north inner city have not been safe for a long time. The area is scourged by open drug dealing, drug-taking, on-street nuisance drinking, and constant and threatening antisocial behaviour. It is in this abnormal atmosphere that people go about their daily lives. People make their journeys to work and parents do the school drop-offs with the ever-present hum of...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...see a uniformed garda. Equally, you can walk up O’Connell Street up to Parnell Square itself and double back onto Moore Street, go onto Mary Street and what you will see is antisocial behaviour, open drug dealing - on the hour; it is timetabled - open drug-taking, nuisance drinking, gangs hanging around, and a feeling of real menace and fear. That is not a unique event; that is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...perpetrator is in custody and, in time, we will learn the story behind all this. The reality, however, is that Dublin city centre has not been safe for some time, with antisocial behaviour, open drug dealing and drug taking, street drinking, and gangs hanging around causing trouble. This should not be news to the Taoiseach. What happened in the aftermath of the horrific knife attack...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... So, when a child with scoliosis is told they have to wait even longer in pain for surgery, when a sick grandmother is left even longer on a hospital trolley, when a cancer patient cannot get the new drug that could change their lives, people will then remember the Taoiseach's catastrophic decision. Tá an Taoiseach tar éis éirí as an tseirbhís sláinte a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: For the past two years the north inner city has been without any drugs and alcohol task force. For those two years the HSE has consistently and wrongly claimed the task force acted outside of its remit or beyond its powers in its appointment of its new chairperson. The HSE and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, issued a statement yesterday that they will reconstitute the drug task...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces (12 Jul 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 242. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the north inner city drug and alcohol task force consultation report; the reasons for not providing the task force members with a copy of the completed report; and when he will re-establish the taskforce. [34462/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-East Inner City Initiative (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...this initiative and the other part is not. That never made any sense and has caused significant local difficulties. I have raised this many times. The north-east inner city still does not have a drug and alcohol task force. It is extraordinary that in the very place where the heroin epidemic sadly first took root, it has now almost been two years that no drug and alcohol task force is...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Everyone has the right to feel safe in their home, on their streets and in their neighbourhood. This right has been taken from so many communities by organised criminals and drug gangs, gangs of thugs using violence, menace and intimidation to exploit working-class communities, targeting our young people to groom them into a dead-end life of crime. They prey on vulnerability and poverty and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The north inner city has no drugs-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----has no drugs and alcohol task force.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...needs to also include the need to expand the boundaries of this initiative because only one section of the north inner city is actually covered. Other areas which have been just as affected by poverty, drugs and the whole gangland phenomenon have been left outside of its scope. This has caused a real problem right across communities. I argued back in the day that all of the north inner...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The case for a citizens' assembly on drugs has been made for a long time and there is an urgency around it. I support it. I wish it could be brought forward more quickly than the Taoiseach has indicated but I appeal to him to stick to the commitment and to the date as set out. Would the Taoiseach believe me if I told him that for the past year and a half there has been no functioning...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (18 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1513. To ask the Minister for Health if his officials have submitted their report regarding the north inner city drug and alcohol task force to him; and when he intends to publish it. [1574/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...timeframe as set out in section 18 of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 for commonly used generic pharmaceutical products to address the current acute shortage of such drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2191/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1716. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the 2021 IPHA Framework Agreement does not include a dedicated reimbursement mechanism for older commonly-used generic drugs for which the pricing framework is not applicable due to the significant number of years since the drugs’ patent has expired. [2332/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (17 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 305. To ask the Minister for Health if his officials have submitted their report regarding the North Inner City Drug and Alcohol Task Force to him. [57177/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. First, I endorse that call for immediate action on the citizens' assembly on the issue of drugs. The matter is outstanding and is urgent. As Deputy Gannon said, we know from our own constituency and the communities we represent just how critical this is. I also want to ask the Taoiseach about a citizens' assembly on the issue of Irish reunification....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (27 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 449. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1814 of 26 July 2022, if his officials have concluded their consultation with all members of the north inner-city drug and alcohol task force; if a report to identify the next steps has been submitted to him; if he is concerned by the slow pace of progress by his Department in resolving matters first raised by his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 476. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken by the Government to address the ongoing situation in which 35 children with a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis cannot access to the drug therapy kaftrio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31507/22]