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Ceisteanna - Questions: Middle East (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent phone conversation with the Israeli President. [25301/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [23663/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the issue of the stadium at Casement Park in Belfast. As the Taoiseach will know, this is a flagship Executive project. Indeed, it is a key and a joint commitment, not just among the parties of the Executive but between Dublin and London as well. The Taoiseach will also be aware that the opportunity to be part of hosting the Euro 2028 was cited as a further incentive to get...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: At the end of February, on Leaders' Questions, I raised the case of Maggie, a ten-year-old child in desperate need of mental health support. Maggie has endured cancer and suffers from depression, anxiety and self-injurious behaviour. She is in very serious distress and does not leave the house except to go to school. Maggie was on an urgent list for over a year before getting a CAMHS...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the Road Safety Authority, RSA, wrote to the Taoiseach last March asking for increased funding and detailing a number of projects that have stalled due to a shortfall. That has been reported in the media. It seems the authority also informed the Taoiseach that the Government would have to plug the gap or allow the authority to increase the cost of the national car test, NCT, by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I described Jack's position and situation to the Taoiseach. His mother wrote to The Irish Times in May outlining the position, which has not changed since then. He cannot access summer provision. Far from making a political football of anything, this mother and family are appealing for change and for urgent action in order that Jack can access the support and service he needs in the course...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I invite the Taoiseach to respond directly to her and, by extension, to Jack.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Parents of children with special needs face a constant battle with the State to get their children the education services to which they are entitled. As we speak, many parents are once again beginning their annual fight to secure appropriate school places for their children from September. This pressure is exacerbated every year as they also struggle to secure summer provision places for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Taoiseach what level of engagement his Department will have with the Dublin city centre task force. [22484/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will endeavour to do so. I want to raise an important issue that affects hundreds of former Waterford Crystal workers, some of whom join us in the Gallery. It is a group that has campaigned on this matter for years. The workers said Waterford Crystal Limited failed to properly inform them of their pension options when they were taking redundancy. This left them without an occupational...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The report makes absolutely clear that half of households, both parents and children, struggle, go without and worry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is the upshot of the Barnardos report. It is an echo of Social Justice Ireland, which equally recorded those stresses and strains. Insulting me does not take from that reality. I have put to the Taoiseach that he has made and stated his intention that he wishes to tackle the cost of living. He has made quite a production around this. That is good and he should do that. I am saying...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: So, he is not doing it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I can feel another fact check coming on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The cost of living is putting enormous pressure on households. A report by Barnardos published this morning highlights the sharp impact on families and children. Nearly half of parents say they or their children have gone without or cut back on the basics over the past six months. This includes food, clothes, medicine, electricity and heat. Some 47% of parents say they are forced to cut...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We teach life, sir. We Palestinians teach life after they have occupied the last sky. We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, after the last skies. [...] We Palestinians wake up every morning to teach the rest of the world life, sir. These are the words of Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah. They are words that...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Palestinian struggle has gone on for generations. The catastrophe of the Nakba was only the start. For 76 years, the story of Palestine has been one of colonisation; occupation; apartheid; violent and brutal human rights atrocities at the hands of the Israeli state and its ferocious military; daily oppression that sees Palestinians killed, jailed, tortured and forced from their lands;...