Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I, first of all, want to give my unequivocal support to the Minister, Deputy McEntee.

On a personal level, I want to thank her for her incredible work on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. It has been phenomenal and the Taoiseach was right to say that she is the first Minister to tackle it in a serious way.

I listened to what the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, said earlier on in response to Deputy McDonald's comments on the school and the assistance it received. As a Minister of State in the Department of Education, I was absolutely gobsmacked by what Deputy McDonald said if it is the case that she knows that the school received assistance from NEPS not within two weeks, but within hours. NEPS staff were in the school by 2 p.m. that day and she is saying here, as a fact - Mary Lou Trump, fake news - that the school received no assistance for two whole weeks. I ask her to withdraw that comment because it is completely incorrect.

A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, you might ask the Deputy to do that.

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