Mary Lou McDonald

Sinn Féin · Dublin Central

Activity on Children and Youth Affairs — 81 events (18 lobbying · 63 questions · 0 votes) full profile →

• 2026-01-21
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  Dublin Chamber of Commerce Children and Youth Affairs

  • Chamber Budget Day correspondence
• 2026-01-20
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  Community Creations Limited t/a SpunOut.ie Children and Youth Affairs

  • Invitation to spunout 20th anniversary event and launch of insights report Loneliness: What Ireland’s Young People Are Telling Us
• 2026-01-19
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  National Forum of Family Resource Centres CLG Children and Youth Affairs

  • The Family Resource Centre National Forum (FRCNF) provided a briefing to Oireachtas members on the 25th of September 2025 in the AV room in Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. The briefing is part of the FRCNF's calls for a renewed Government commitment to increase the National FRC Programme core funding for all 121 FRCs to €240,000 ahead of Budget 2026.
• 2025-09-17
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  BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd. Children and Youth Affairs

  • A meeting to discuss trans healthcare, incitement to hatred legislation, and LGBTQ+ community engagement as part of a delegation of representatives from LGBTQ+ organisations.
• 2025-09-10
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  CyberSafeIreland Children and Youth Affairs

  • Children's online safety
• 2025-05-21
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  BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd. 2 returns Children and Youth Affairs

  • Request to meet to discuss a proposed youth hub in Dublin city centre.
  • Belong To held its Rainbow Awards for youth services, and invited representatives from those services' constituencies to attend.
• 2025-05-19
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  CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED Children and Youth Affairs

  • Advocacy on Children's Rights Alliance Report Card 2025.
• 2025-05-16
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  Early Childhood Ireland Children and Youth Affairs

  • Current issues affecting Early Years and School Age Care settings
• 2025-03-06
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  Galway Regional Youth Federation Company Limited by Guarantee Children and Youth Affairs

  • Young people and youth workers visited Leinster House
• 2025-01-21
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  Hanover Media Strategy Limited Children and Youth Affairs

  • Open letter on proposed sector reforms
• 2025-01-21
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  National Centre for Youth Mental Health Children and Youth Affairs

  • Visit to Jigsaw Wicklow
• 2025-01-20
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  Society of St. Vincent de Paul Children and Youth Affairs

  • A letter sent as part of a coalition of 30 organisations calling for a public model of early education and care.
• 2025-01-20
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  National Youth Council of Ireland 2 returns Children and Youth Affairs

  • General Election 2024 & Informing priorities for youth work
  • General Election 2024 & Informing priorities for youth work
• 2025-01-16
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  BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd. Children and Youth Affairs

  • The CEO of Belong To emailed TDs to congratulate them on their election and to highlight the importance of including priority LGBTQ+ issues in the Programme for Government.
• 2025-01-16
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  Early Childhood Ireland Children and Youth Affairs

  • Programme for Government
• 2025-01-15
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Children and Youth Affairs

  • Childcare
• 2025-01-09
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  CyberSafeIreland Children and Youth Affairs

  • Children's online safety
• 2024-12-19
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  European Network Against Racism (ENAR) Ireland CLG Children and Youth Affairs

  • Supporting NWC Public System of Early Childhood Education Campaign
• 2021-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with children and youth affairs will next meet. [43521/21]
• 2020-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs which Department will have responsibility for youth affairs. [15724/20]
• 2020-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the revised organisational chart for his Department will be provided. [15720/20]
• 2020-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the procedure in place for registration of children on CCSP schemes that are scheduled to return to childcare from 29 June 2020; if they will they have to re-register; the way in which families will obtain supporting documentation from offices of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection closed due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12697/20]
• 2020-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if school age children are permitted in day care and Montessori facilities from 29 June 2020. [12753/20]
• 2020-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has been granted an extension to complete its work due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if the disappointment of the survivors and their families arising from the latest delay to completion of the work of the Commission will be acknowledged. [13483/20]
• 2020-06-16
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department will operate a helpline for providers in advance of and during the reopening of crèches and early learning facilities. [11626/20]
• 2020-06-16
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to implement an inspection process in advance of the reopening of crèches and early learning facilities for the purpose of advising providers on the implementation of departmental guidance on reopening. [11627/20]
• 2020-06-16
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the maximum number of children and staff per pod in crèches and early learning facilities on reopening; and if her Department will provide guidance to providers on this matter. [11628/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if additional funding will be provided to crèches and early learning facilities to fund the additional staff necessary to satisfy the reopening guidance. [11629/20]
• 2020-06-16
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the approach of her Department to testing for Covid-19 for workers in crèches and early learning facilities on the reopening of the sector will be clarified. [11630/20]
• 2020-06-16
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide guidance to crèches and early learning facilities on revised dropping off and picking up procedures on the reopening of the sector. [11631/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department will provide additional funding to crèches and early learning facilities for the purpose of upgrading outdoor space. [11632/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department will provide return to work training for employees of crèches and early learning facilities in advance of the reopening of the sector. [11633/20]
• 2020-06-03
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date by which the childcare temporary wage subsidy scheme will be extended to; and if the current rate of the payment will be maintained throughout this period. [9332/20]
• 2020-06-03
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress of the advisory group on reopening early learning and care and school-age childcare services. [9333/20]
• 2020-06-03
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on her recent meeting with EU ministers to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the youth sector; and the actions she will take to further support the sector. [9334/20]
• 2020-05-27
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action she will take to ensure childcare providers insurance includes cover for Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8056/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of her Department's €25.3 million budgetary allocation for 2020 for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence related services. [6852/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional budgetary allocation related to Covid-19 for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence related services her Department has allocated. [6853/20]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the State will begin the collection of DNA samples for the purpose of returning human remains in Tuam, County Galway to identifiable relatives for dignified burial. [53122/19]
• 2019-12-03
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of early years service providers that are due to re-register by the end of December 2019; and if Tusla has adequate resources to ensure this process is completed in a timely manner. [50088/19]
• 2019-07-10
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of family resources centres and the county in which each is located, in tabular form. [30216/19]
• 2019-07-09
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adoption tracing inquiries received by Tusla in the past 12 months by domestic and intercountry adoptions in tabular form. [29465/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adoption information inquiries, including GDPR or subject access requests, received by Tusla in the past 12 months by domestic and intercountry adoptions in tabular form. [29466/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the national childcare scheme has been gender proofed. [29598/19]
• 2019-07-02
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the live studies, reviews and research undertaken or commissioned by her; and the date by which each study, review and research is scheduled to be completed. [27876/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocated to domestic violence emergency refuges accommodation for 2019. [28141/19]
• 2019-06-25
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding provided to domestic and gender-based violence organisations in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by organisation in tabular form. [26635/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will implement the recommendations of a report (details supplied). [24149/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a list of child contact centres in tabular form. [24150/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reinstate funding to a project (details supplied); and the reason the funding was withdrawn from same. [24151/19]
• 2019-05-28
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 16 May 2019, her views on the advice from a religious order (details supplied) that burial sites at a site are to remain in the ownership of the order; and if she has raised the recent finding of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes that the religious order failed to provide evidence that infants were not buried in unapproved cemeteries. [22581/19]
• 2019-05-16
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the recent sale of a former mother and baby home (details supplied); and the action she will take to exclude potential burial sites from the sale following the recent finding of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes that an organisation failed to provide evidence that infants were not buried in unapproved cemeteries. [21194/19]
• 2019-05-08
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a person (details supplied) has completed their examination into the legal and scientific considerations relating to the collection of DNA samples by the State for the purpose of returning human remains in Tuam, County Galway, to identifiable relatives for dignified burial; and if so, when the report will be published. [18442/19]
• 2019-04-02
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the mechanisms she has put in place to enable the collaborative forum of former residents of mother and baby homes and related institutions to facilitate the active participation of former residents in recommending actions and solutions to address their concerns including those issues raised in the reports of the facilitated meetings and the cross-border movement of children from homes and institutions here. [15444/19]
• 2019-04-02
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the mechanisms she has put in place to enable the collaborative forum of former residents of mother and baby homes and related institutions have a role in monitoring the implementation of measures designed to support former residents. [15445/19]
• 2019-03-27
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received the interim report of the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes on burials; and when the report will be published. [14305/19]
• 2019-03-26
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the counties that do not have emergency refuge accommodation for victims of domestic violence and their children, in tabular form. [13288/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adult emergency refuge accommodation beds available for victims of domestic violence. [13289/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child emergency refuge accommodation beds available for victims of domestic violence. [13290/19]
• 2019-03-26
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce the necessary legislative or other measures to provide for the setting up of appropriate, easily accessible domestic violence refuge accommodation in sufficient numbers to provide safe accommodation for and to reach out proactively to victims, especially women and their children, as committed to when ratifying the Istanbul Convention. [13291/19]
• 2019-03-26
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has refused to provide persons with a copy of their testimony to the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13374/19]
• 2019-01-15
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla initiated and completed a review of emergency domestic violence services in the greater Dublin area; and when a report on the same will be published. [1461/19]
• 2018-11-20
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action she will take following the resignation of a person (details supplied) from the mother and baby homes collaborative forum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47801/18]
• 2018-10-23
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the method by which new members of the mother and baby home collaborative forum will be appointed as vacancies arise. [43363/18]
• 2018-04-24
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to her Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years from 2007 to 2017, in tabular form. [17900/18]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of her Department, in tabular form. [49930/17]
• 2017-11-28
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names of persons she has appointed to each State board under the aegis of her Department that have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of suitable candidates, in tabular form. [49992/17]
• 2017-11-16
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the gender balance on each of the State boards under her remit, in tabular form. [48558/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla will produce an annual report on sexual violence statistics for 2016 in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45629/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department will contribute to the funding of a second sexual abuse and violence study here, SAVI 2; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45630/17]
• 2017-11-07
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will request Tusla to collect figures for women and children using domestic violence refuges and step down accommodation on a monthly basis for inclusion in the monthly Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government homeless figures. [45639/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if all front-line staff, including but not exclusively those of Tusla, receive suicide prevention training, if suicide prevention training is mandatory for front-line staff under the aegis of her Department; and if not, her plans to make such training mandatory with the provision of a refresher online course available to staff to be completed every three years thereafter. [45656/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of women and men, respectively, employed in her Department in tabular form. [37067/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of men and women, respectively, in her Department who hold posts (details supplied). [37078/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual percentage of non-commercial State-sponsored bodies staff under the remit of her Department that were women in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017 in tabular form. [38357/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual percentage of public service staff that were women under the remit of her Department in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [38380/17]
• 2017-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused AIM level 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15235/17]
• 2017-01-17
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to advertise the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland in print, radio and electronic media outlets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1637/17]
• 2017-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to advertise the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes overseas in print, radio and electronic media outlets and to ensure members of the diaspora have an opportunity to share their testimony with the Commission (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1638/17]
• 2017-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she plans to publish the second interim report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1639/17]
• 2015-12-01
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to facilitate the adoption of orphans from Syria as part of the Government's participation in the European Union's refugee resettlement programme. [42361/15]