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Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...quickly when they are sick and can access proper hospital care if they need it; a future where life is affordable, where a job provides a decent living and where people can retire at 65 with a pension; a future where our young people get the chance they deserve at home, are not forced to emigrate for opportunity, and can build a good and prosperous life here with their family and friends....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...that homeownership has collapsed under this Government for a generation? It is no wonder that renters pack their bags for Australia and Canada; they are getting out of Dodge. Older renters approaching pension age are also caught up in this nightmare. They worry that their pension will not cover their rent. What an awful feeling it must be for someone who has worked hard all of their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to consumers. The second is to instruct the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to investigate possible price gouging in the sector. The third and crucial part is to increase social welfare and pension rates to protect people from food poverty. These measures would make a real difference to people in the here and now. Sinn Féin set out its plan in the Dáil last...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...recorded and shoppers are set to see their annual grocery bills rise by €1,200. That is a very big sum and people’s incomes will just not stretch that far in many cases. Many people are going hungry. Pensioners are skipping meals. With the school holidays now fast approaching, some families do not know how they will feed their children this summer. I am sure the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...or rent are. When Deputy Varadkar returned as Taoiseach in December, he said housing was his priority but his Government's first major decision was to push thousands of working families, single people and pensioners towards homelessness. Tá na mílte teaghlach atá ag obair - daoine singil agus pinsinéirí - ag déileáil le díshealbhú de bharr...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (30 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...submitted the business case and consent request to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform as required regarding a company's (details supplied) approved pension increase as submitted to him in July 2022. [15881/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...force Government to act. This Bill provides every Member of the Dáil the opportunity to state, through a vote on legislation, where they stand and to vote to protect working families, single people and pensioners from losing their homes, or to vote to evict them into the prospect of homelessness. At the eleventh hour, the Government puts down an amendment. It does this not to...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...glorious display again today. Leo Varadkar returned to the Taoiseach’s office in December. He said housing would be his priority. Well, his first major housing decision is to put 3,000 working families, single people and pensioners at risk of losing their homes by lifting the eviction ban in three days’ time. That is his approach. This affects every renter faced now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ban in nine days' time. Every Deputy has a clear choice to make: to back a Government decision that will escalate the unprecedented housing emergency or to protect working families, single people and pensioners who, because of this decision, will lose the roof over their heads. I ask the Taoiseach again: where are people meant to go? Where are the 3,000 households whose eviction notices...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government plans to lift the eviction ban in ten days. If it does this, where are the working families, single people and pensioners at risk of losing their homes meant to go? This question has been put to the Taoiseach repeatedly and those people still wait for an answer. Without putting any measures in place, the Government intends to remove this protection for renters during an...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has submitted the business case and consent request to the Minister for Public Expenditure as required regarding a company's (details supplied) approved pension increase as submitted to him in July 2022. [13180/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (21 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will conclude his consideration of a company’s (details supplied) approved pension increase submitted to him in July 2022. [8152/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...this knowing it would hit the least well-off families the hardest. We are talking about people forced to work beyond retirement to pay for their parents' nursing home fees. We are talking about pensioners left with a weekly pittance on which to live after paying the charges for loved ones' care. We are talking about families fearing they would go without food, clothes and the basic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., as the Taoiseach stated. Much of the difficulty is self-inflicted by the Government and the HSE. If they are not prepared to pay and reward people in terms of their take-home pay and their pension entitlements in line with statutory standards, they will have a problem recruiting and holding onto staff. I asked the Taoiseach about Neil specifically. He has given me a general and...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...will pay a heavy price and many more families will be pushed into fuel poverty. In the areas of personal taxation and social protection, the budget fails the fairness test. For all the Taoiseach had to say about pensioners, the €12 increase in welfare payments and the State pension are inadequate. Everyone on the front line has told him so. The increase will be cancelled out by...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...life are denied to so many people, including a roof over their heads that is secure and affordable, access to hospital when they need treatment and the right to retire from work at 65 with a fair pension if they wish. Now, working parents worry that they will not be able to put food on the table for their children. All of this is a result of bad policies implemented by successive...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: And an enhanced pension at 70.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: All of the anxiety that has been caused on this issue has been caused by the Taoiseach and people of his ilk who had plans, bear in mind, to ratchet the pension age up to 67, 68 and beyond. The Taoiseach cited all sorts of reasons and rationale for doing that. Our position has been and remains consistent that the appropriate and fair age to be given the choice to retire with one's pension...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----ratchet the pension age up to 70, and that is simply wrong. I am not one bit ageist. For sure, there are those who will wish to work beyond the age of 65 and they must be facilitated in that. More power to them. However, we live in the real world, gentlemen and ladies, and we live in a world where people who have worked from a young age in very physical jobs simply are not able and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. Workers across the country will be deeply alarmed and angered by the Government's latest plan for the State pension. Let us call this what it is: a Trojan horse designed by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to move the pension age to 70 by stealth. The cat is out of the bag. The Government wants people to work until the age of 70. I suppose...