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Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: First Stage (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Covid-19 has heightened awareness of the depth and breadth of domestic violence and abuse. Every day during the first six months of the pandemic, 19 women and three children contacted a domestic violence service for the first time, seeking support and safety from abuse and coercive control. Coercive control is now a crime and last month's landmark judgment sends a simple message to abusers...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach does himself no credit as Head of Government to resist the legitimate and reasonable ask from the Opposition that the Minister for Justice make a statement and take questions on this matter. I remind the Taoiseach that when he was in opposition, he had plenty to say when a former Attorney General was elevated to the Bench of the Appeal Court. At that time, some of his...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to examine this matter and to examine exactly what happened. The only person who can assist us in that regard is the Minister of Justice.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will persist with this matter in respect of the Minister for Justice. As the Taoiseach is aware, the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board advises. It is a clearing mechanism for suitable candidates, but it is the Government which decides who the appointee is. Something happened in this process that requires answers. The Taoiseach clearly cannot provide them because he was unaware of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is talking down the clock.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach and the Government are denying a request by the Opposition, virtually in its entirety, for the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, to present to make a statement and to take questions relating to the process surrounding the appointment of a justice to the Supreme Court benches. The Taoiseach is being disingenuous in his approach on this matter. He has stated, correctly, that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will this Government on his watch now assist Dublin City Council in the way I have set out-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to ensure that the site is developed efficiently and that it results in affordable housing for people who desperately need it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That they can afford.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That they can afford.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is not a matter of ideology, but of pure common sense. That is why I assume the Taoiseach's colleagues on Dublin City Council, or a good number of them, voted down this proposal. It is a matter of proper standards, the right approach to housing policy and a matter of logic that one does not hand over massively valuable sites to private developers so that they can profit and ordinary...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have made my case to the Taoiseach. I wish to make it clear that it is essential that the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, makes herself available to the House to make a full statement and to take questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Are other party leaders not going to be given an opportunity to respond?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last night, an overwhelming majority of Dublin city councillors, including some colleagues of the Taoiseach, voted against transferring public land to a private developer. The councillors took a stand for public housing on public land to meet social and affordable need. They know this is the only way to tackle this city's overwhelming housing crisis. The proposal for Oscar Traynor Road in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can I respond to the statement?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. All of us value the independence of the Judiciary and every measure must be taken to protect that. I appreciate the events as set out by the Taoiseach. The Judiciary chose an informal process of its own and it reported on the matter of Mr. Justice Woulfe's attendance at a golfing event in Clifden. I hear also the Taoiseach's determination that the Oireachtas...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is not my Leaders' question, by the way. I am responding to the Taoiseach's statement.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. The Taoiseach has made a statement. I asked to respond to the statement and I thought that was clear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I accept that.