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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is about big bucks and big funds muscling into the property market with the assistance of the Government and, meanwhile, our citizens, families and communities are left with no real chance to ever buy or own their own homes. The most despicable part of this is that, tonight, the Government will sneakily move this through, using the guillotine, with virtually no debate. It is the same...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have made the case to the Taoiseach on countless occasions that the half measures he has introduced to rein in cuckoo funds are woefully inadequate and simply will not work. Apartments, which are perfectly decent homes, are excluded from the Government's plans. This leaves ordinary workers and families, especially in Dublin but in other cities also, at the mercy of these funds that can...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Statements (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sharing time with Deputy Martin Kenny. I asked for these statements following the publication of the annual impact report published last month by Women's Aid. I very much welcome that the debate is finally taking place. That report contained shocking detail that exposes the horrific reality of domestic abuse taking place right across the State. It revealed that the number of people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have previously raised with the Taoiseach the need for the shared island unit's research funding model to be extended to include academics in both the North and the South who have a long history of shared work on policies relevant to the whole island. I welcome yesterday's announcement by the Taoiseach and the Minister, Deputy Harris, of a significant funding commitment for the North-South...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [34510/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: There was a really shocking report in today's Irish Examinernewspaper that stated a complaint has been lodged with the Irish Prison Service by a female solicitor, who was instructed by a male prison officer in Clover Hill to remove her underwear if she wanted to visit her client because the underwire in her bra had set off the metal detector. The woman concerned has described how she felt...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [33378/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: This afternoon, the Dáil will discuss the actions necessary to tackle sexual, domestic and gender-based violence. I thank the Taoiseach for facilitating my request and agreeing to these statements. The annual Women's Aid impact report published last month highlighted a 43% increase in contact with its services last year. Safe Ireland’s 39 front-line service member organisations...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 21 June, the Minister for Health gave us a commitment that by the end of that day every hospital would have the same rules for partner visits, including access for the full duration of labour. Despite claims by the Taoiseach and others that the situation in our maternity hospitals and units had been resolved, clearly that is not the case. I have been contacted recently by dozens of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I hope we can agree that this is the least women and new mothers can expect.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not happening.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and then a guillotine to get this disgraceful law through.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not agreed. Tomorrow evening, a finance Bill that, on the face of it, deals with Covid provisions will be considered in the House. The Government has tabled an amendment to the legislation to insert a section 15. The explicit intent of the amendment is to exempt investment funds from a stamp duty surcharge when they bulk-buy homes to lease back to the State. This action is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am asking the Taoiseach simply to be true to what he said in May, that is, that there should not be an allowance for these funds to snap up homes and lease them back to councils.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want him to be as good as his word and to call a halt to this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Taoiseach propose to answer questions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Taoiseach propose to answer questions during Leaders' Questions? Are there answers to our questions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The disgraceful practice of so-called cuckoo funds snapping up family homes in bulk, under the noses of ordinary workers and families, is an issue we have raised with the Taoiseach in the House many times. Indeed, it is perhaps the most abhorrent aspect of our broken housing system. Of course, what is even worse is the practice of these funds snapping up those homes and then leasing them...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: At a time of crisis, when so many people struggle to put a roof over their head, they deserve much more than the kind of incoherent waffle we are hearing from the Taoiseach as Head of Government. It is really quite disgraceful. I have the Minister's amendment here. It is written down, black on white, what the Government is proposing to do. It is proposing to incentivise these funds to buy...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 105. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a recent workplace fatality at a shipping company (details supplied) in Dublin Port which follows an earlier workplace fatality for which the same company pleaded guilty for failing to manage and conduct its undertaking and an investigation by the Health and Safety Authority concluded that all the...