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Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have no doubt that if she were in the Chamber today, she would back him again.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nominating him for Taoiseach, she had this to say: It is that sense of simply wanting to help, of breaking down barriers, and making life better for people that drives Simon Harris. I know, under his leadership, we will see a major focus on improving supports for people with disabilities. So she said. I would imagine that at that time, the parents of children waiting in agony for...

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The motion tabled today by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil is a move cynically designed to intercept and shut down a prospective motion of no confidence in the Tánaiste, Simon Harris, to shield him from being held to account for his litany of failures, but primarily his profound failure of children with scoliosis and spina bifida. The pace with which the Government moved to protect Simon...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Wholesale prices are down considerably, by over 70%, and that reduction is not being passed on, so bills are rising. Energy companies are profiteering, turning huge profits, and the Government is sitting idly by. Families and workers are struggling hard and the Government sits idly by. It is too lily-livered or perhaps too indifferent to bother to intervene and take this on. I notice...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The bills are going up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach does not live in the real world. That is the problem here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach does not live in the real world.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Oh, I very much live in the real world.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a statement of fact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do you?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Well then do something about this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: You are the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the scandal of big energy companies shamelessly ripping off and gouging households. I outlined how the latest report from the International Energy Agency highlights that Irish energy bills are three times higher than the wholesale cost of energy. The cost of energy has dropped significantly since 2022, but these companies are not passing on savings to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on EU and international affairs will next meet.. [53180/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no pressure on the companies.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I give a warm welcome to the yellow bellies. Fáilte isteach, ladies. For all of the Taoiseach's big talk about phasing out the carer's allowance means test over five years, we got the truth of his position in last week's budget. Instead of allocating the €133 million that would be required for this phase-out, only €10 million was allocated for next year. At this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not agreed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: So poverty is okay.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not agreed to. Under Standing Order 35(3), I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, namely to have statements and questions and answers from the Minister for Health and from the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Harris, on the ongoing scandal regarding children with scoliosis and spina bifida who require spinal surgery and why they are continuing to be failed and left on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus, that is not answer for the people who cannot get a home. It is outrageous.