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Tue, 17 Oct 2023
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Social Welfare Payments
Mary Lou McDonald
369. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection to confirm the current total number of recipients of fuel allowance payments living in the constituency of Dublin central. [45149/23]
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
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Childcare Services
Mary Lou McDonald
470. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of childcare places currently available in the constituency of Dublin central. [45161/23]
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
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Childcare Services
Mary Lou McDonald
471. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of new childcare places that have been opened in the constituency of Dublin Central for the years 2020 to 2023 respectively. [45162/23]
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
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Childcare Services
Mary Lou McDonald
472. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of childcare providers that have closed, and the childcare places that have been lost as a result of these closures in the constituency of Dublin central in each of the years 2020 to 2023 respectively. [45163/23]
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
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Healthcare Policy
Mary Lou McDonald
586. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide access to the long-term illness scheme for persons affected by hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45146/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Tax Reliefs
Mary Lou McDonald
106. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance how many requests for appeal hearings with the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal) are currently in hand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43738/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Tax Reliefs
Mary Lou McDonald
107. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance when appeal hearings with the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal) will recommence for persons who have had a primary medical certificate application deemed ineligible. [43739/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Tax Reliefs
Mary Lou McDonald
108. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance to provide an update on his Department’s engagement with NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital) regarding the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board Of Appeal); have financial arrangements been agreed with NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital); have the NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital) agreed to host the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (DDMBA); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43740/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Tax Reliefs
Mary Lou McDonald
109. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance the progress made to date by his Department regarding the replacement of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43741/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Tax Reliefs
Mary Lou McDonald
110. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance whether a review of regulations underpinning the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme and primary medical certificate scheme has taken place arising from the Supreme Court challenge to the conflict between the regulations and primary legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43742/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Office of Public Works
Mary Lou McDonald
150. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform whether the Office of Public Works is responsible for land in County Dublin (details supplied). [43800/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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School Accommodation
Mary Lou McDonald
193. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education when a response will be issued to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied). [43684/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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School Accommodation
Mary Lou McDonald
194. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education if she will facilitate a meeting requested by a school (details supplied) in Dublin. [43685/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Primary Medical Certificates
Mary Lou McDonald
516. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications received in each CHO in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43714/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Primary Medical Certificates
Mary Lou McDonald
517. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificates approved and awarded in each CHO in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43715/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Primary Medical Certificates
Mary Lou McDonald
518. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications that have been deemed ineligible and subsequently refused in each CHO in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43716/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Primary Medical Certificates
Mary Lou McDonald
519. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications that are currently in hand awaiting processing in each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43717/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Primary Medical Certificates
Mary Lou McDonald
520. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications that are currently in hand which have been deemed ineligible and cannot access an appeal process in each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43718/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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Primary Medical Certificates
Mary Lou McDonald
521. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on appointments to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; and when appeal hearings will recommence for persons who have had a primary medical certificate deemed ineligible. [43719/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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General Practitioner Services
Mary Lou McDonald
576. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to outline the rationale behind the decision to restrict or cap the number of assigned patients each GP has to take on; the current cap for each GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44079/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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General Practitioner Services
Mary Lou McDonald
577. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to outline the reason for removing the obligation on GPs to take patients assigned by the HSE; the consultation, if any, that was undertaken with community-based organisations who provide support and care to vulnerable persons seeking access to healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44080/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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General Practitioner Services
Mary Lou McDonald
578. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to confirm what is meant by "limited ability to assign a GP providing GP visit card/medical card services", further to correspondence received at my office (details supplied). [44092/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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General Practitioner Services
Mary Lou McDonald
579. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to confirm the arrangements that are currently in place to assign a GP to persons holding a GMS or GP only card who have tried unsuccessfully to access three GPs in their area and cannot find a GP to accept them. [44093/23]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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General Practitioner Services
Mary Lou McDonald
580. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health how many new GP visit and GMS cards were issued in 2022; how many of the persons to whom these cards were issued in 2022 were unable to find a GP; how many of these persons were assigned a GP by the HSE in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44094/23]
Thu, 28 Sep 2023
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Departmental Programmes
Mary Lou McDonald
282. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health what funding is available to older persons seeking support to adapt their homes via the health-age-friendly-homes programme; what steps older persons seeking support should take to access this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42011/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
787. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice further to the final terms of reference for the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), the reason she and her officials refused to provide a judge with the independent review mechanism report. [35723/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
788. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if, further to the final terms of reference of the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), a judge requested the independent review mechanism report as required to fulfil the obligations of their appointment. [35724/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
789. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if, further to the final terms of reference for the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), a judge was provided with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission statutory section 101 report. [35725/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
790. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if, further to the final terms of reference of the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), a judge requested the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission statutory section 101 report as required to fulfil the obligations of their appointment. [35726/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
791. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide the terms of reference for the independent review mechanism's review into the death of a person (details supplied); and if the terms of reference were provided to a person to enable them to fulfil the obligations of their appointment to conduct a scoping exercise. [35730/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
792. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if, further to the many failures of An Garda Síochána, the judiciary, the Coroner's Office, the Courts Service and her own Department identified by a judge (details supplied) throughout the report of their scoping exercise into the death of a person, she will now establish an independent inquiry into the person's death as previously directed by the Members of Dáil and Seanad Éireann. [35731/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
793. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice to provide the dates on which a person (details supplied) met, exchanged emails or telephone calls with her officials from the date of appointment to conduct the scoping exercise into the death of a person to publication of the final report on the 3 July 2023. [35733/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
794. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice to provide the dates on which a person (details supplied) met, exchanged emails or telephone calls with her or former Ministers from the date of appointment to conduct the scoping exercise into the death of a person to publication of the final report on the 3 July 2023. [35734/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
796. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice the reason she or her officials did not inform a family (details supplied) that a judge was formerly a member of the Courts Service Board on their appointment to undertake the scoping exercise; and the dates on which the judge was a member of the Courts Service Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35743/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Mary Lou McDonald
806. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice to provide, in tabular form, domestic, sexual and gender-based violence offences data for 2022, broken down by Garda district or station, to include, but not limited to, rape, sexual assault, domestic violence and coercive control. [35840/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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An Garda Síochána
Mary Lou McDonald
807. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice to provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of crime data for each of the Dublin metropolitan region divisions for the period of 2020-2023 to date. [35841/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Mary Lou McDonald
808. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice to provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence offences data, to include, but not limited to, rape, sexual assault, domestic violence and coercive control for the period of 2020-2023 to date in the Dublin north inner city and north-west inner city. [35842/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
823. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if she is aware that the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), recently published on her Department’s website and completed by a judge on appointment by her, omits information regarding the Judicial Review taken by An Garda Síochána and that the outcome of this action was a decision by the Garda Commissioner not to discipline the gardaí for the wrongful actions raised by earlier GSOC reports regarding the person’s death on the basis that there was no evidence that the gardaí concerned were trained on the PULSE system to prepare cases for court or outcomes of same. [35984/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
824. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if she is aware that the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), recently published on her Department’s website and completed by a judge on appointment by her, omits the information that the perpetrator’s successful appeal to a 16 February 2011 drug conviction due to deficiencies in the State’s case despite the perpetrator having breached bail conditions by further arrests and leaving the State in the intervening period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35985/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
Mary Lou McDonald
825. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if she is aware that the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied) recently published on her Department's website and completed by a judge appointed by her, describes speeding convictions as trivial, if she agrees with this position; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35987/23]
Thu, 13 Jul 2023
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Employment Schemes
Mary Lou McDonald
503. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 30 May 2023, the reason for the ongoing delay in completing the reasonable accommodation fund review and consultation, due to be completed by the end of 2019 under commitments within the Comprehensive Employment Strategy and when the review report will be published.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35298/23]
Wed, 12 Jul 2023
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Constitutional Amendments
Mary Lou McDonald
16. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [32201/23]
Wed, 12 Jul 2023
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Local Drugs Task Forces
Mary Lou McDonald
242. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked 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]
Tue, 11 Jul 2023
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Departmental Bodies
Mary Lou McDonald
1. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [30736/23]
Tue, 11 Jul 2023
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Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
Mary Lou McDonald
104. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when he will publish his diary for quarter 2 of 2023 on the website of his Department. [33974/23]
Tue, 11 Jul 2023
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Departmental Data
Mary Lou McDonald
537. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 443 of 9 May 2023, the reason for the delay in publishing the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022 due at the end of Q2 as set out in the Justice Plan 2023. [34330/23]
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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Cabinet Committees
Mary Lou McDonald
3. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [32199/23]
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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Departmental Programmes
Mary Lou McDonald
13. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in the north-east inner city. [30734/23]
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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National Economic and Social Council
Mary Lou McDonald
14. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [30735/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Taoiseach's Communications
Mary Lou McDonald
3. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach the State apologies issued by taoisigh since 2013. [32197/23]