Results 1-10 of 10 for sligo speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the summer break, but we should reflect on the fact the defective blocks containing mica and pyrite have devastated the lives of homeowners and their families in Donegal, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Sligo and at least eight other counties. It is fair to say those homeowners, families and entire communities are in a state of shock due to the scheme published by the Minister, Deputy Darragh...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...beds, including more acute beds and ICU capacity. We also need the capital approvals process to be streamlined. The resources held back include, for example, 96 beds for Limerick, 50 beds for Sligo, 50 beds for Cork and I could go on and on. Similarly, on the recruitment process, would the Taoiseach believe me if I told him the average recruitment time for a consultant is 562 days?...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., where it can take up to six months to recruit a nurse and a year and more to recruit a consultant. How can that be justified? My colleague, Deputy Cullinane, has met with hospital managers in Cork, Sligo, Galway and beyond, all of whom have capital requests lodged for months. They are left to wait. This means that badly-needed 50- to 100-bed expansions are delayed indefinitely. The...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Taoiseach and they want him to come out, look them in the eye and explain to them why they are living this nightmare. The mica and pyrite scandal affects families in Donegal as well as families in Mayo, Sligo, Limerick, Clare and Tipperary. Support for all these victims of mica and pyrite is not just national but international because all of us can at least try to understand the heartache...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...a childcare worker who has children, says that she will have to bring her kids to work. There are other staff who also have children so this, in its own way, eliminates places for parents. Siobhán from Sligo sums up the situation of many families when she says that her husband's boss is putting terrible pressure on him after weeks without childcare. He may lose his job over it....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...is that the Minister's very expensive plan goes ahead, expenditure will be re-profiled and local authority social housing, the Tralee wastewater network, Kilkenny regional water supply scheme, the Sligo western distributor road, the Killaloe bypass, the Dunkettle interchange, 18 primary schools, new ambulance bases, and so on and so forth will be taken off the table. Even in the best case...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the State. State-wide today, there are 631 patients on trolleys, the highest number in 2019 so far according to the INMO. There are 55, as I said, in Limerick, 42 at Cork University Hospital, 50 at Sligo University Hospital, 39 in Beaumont, and 37 in Galway. I am advised by Deputy Ferris that there are 36 patients on trolleys in Kerry University Hospital and nine sitting in chairs. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 14 November, I think it was, I was in Sligo Grammar School at a remembrance service which was absolutely wonderful and inclusive.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (11 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 797. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for his decision to privatise the HSE respite care service in County Sligo; when the tender for the privatised service in County Sligo will progress; the planned date for completion; and his further plans to privatise public respite care services. [36972/17]

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the section of the programme for Government on creating a healthy Ireland, the Government commits to updating the national eye care plan, including an evaluation of the Sligo model for cataract surgery. Anyone who read the account of 87 year old Agnes O'Connor in The Irish Timesthis morning will have been outraged by the failure of the health system to treat her eye deterioration properly...