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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Get up the yard.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go away out of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: At the weekend, we learned that an investment fund is buying up the majority of homes in a development at Mullen Park in Maynooth. The fund, which has a "war chest" of €1 billion, has robbed first-time buyers of the opportunity to buy their own homes. The fund will acquire these homes and then put them up for rent at extortionate rates. Of course, investment funds buying housing in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is not driving construction. It has left renters in the lurch, it will not cut rents and it will not ensure that there will be no rent increases for the next three years. It has no clue about affordability. In the cloud cuckoo land that the Government inhabits, €450,000 for a house in Dublin is affordable apparently. That is not the case. Above all else, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 568. To ask the Minister for Health if travelling abroad to purchase property is considered essential travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22838/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the President and Vice-President of the United States of America. [16850/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: President Biden and Vice President Harris continue to express their unequivocal support for the Irish peace process and the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. This, of course, is very welcome. I hope we will see similar energetic political action from the Government in Dublin to press these two issues of full support and full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I take up very little time in this section.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Very little indeed.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Well-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think the Leas-Cheann Comhairle has called me out of turn.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [19934/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: As expected, the European Parliament has ratified the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement. Of particular note was the formal acknowledgement by MEPs of the unique circumstances of the North of Ireland and the role given to the Assembly in respect of the Irish protocol. When ratifying the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement, the Parliament also expressed the need for ongoing and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tomorrow the Taoiseach will announce his plan for the gradual reopening of our society and economy. There is now some light at the end of the tunnel. As more vaccines come on stream, all of us hope that we can start to catch up with others and that more people will start getting back to work. For all of us, particularly for those who have not seen a day's work in over a year, a return to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not want to play a game of semantics with the Taoiseach at this point but the reality is that sectors of the economy have been closed down because the public health advice has been that it is not safe to go to work. All of us want the economy to reopen speedily and safely. I was not putting a question to the Taoiseach in respect of the natural reduction that will accrue as people...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland plans to agree a memorandum of understanding in respect of MetroLink with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21477/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Council (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the decision by the Pensions Commission not to publish the submissions it received during its recent public consultation on State pensions; the reason for the Pension Commission’s decision not to make public the submissions as would be common practice given that the decision could...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The easing of restrictions and the reopening of society open up an opportunity to reset the economy and to rebuild in a way that represents a necessary departure from Government policy thus far on the Taoiseach's watch and from the approach of previous Governments. This will, by definition, mean a more active State with more intervention and less sitting on the sidelines. I raised the area...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and Investment will next meet. [16849/21]