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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (10 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the report completed by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission regarding the death of a person (details supplied) has not been published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34942/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (10 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 618. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to an apology issued to the family of a person (details supplied) by An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34943/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Prison Service (10 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the director general of the Prison Service lifted the suspension of investigations into malpractice within the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35261/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: A number of fundamentals have to be right for social dialogue to be successful. First, the processes, custom, practice and expected standards applied to interactions between the State and others should be understood, respected and adhered to. That means, for example, handing a confidential document to one of one's buddies because one is the Taoiseach and can do so, is not a solid foundation...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the course of the debate on the legislation, the Minister was advised that his position was wrong. He was challenged on that point and advised that European law and instruments had primacy over the 2004 Act that he was citing. That went in one ear and out the other. It alarms me that the House was misled and that there were repeated public policy statements about sealing an archive for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue coordination unit of his Department. [33559/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach is aware, five more people experiencing homelessness died last week. These deaths were not only tragic, they may have been avoidable. So far, 50 people have died this year. This means that by year end the number of people experiencing homelessness who have died on our streets will have doubled in 2020. Does the Taoiseach agree that this alarming increase in deaths...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [31755/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to address the ban on the sale of essential clothing for children, which has caused a lot of stress and distress for families throughout the State. We are heading into a very cold winter. Children grow and they need new coats and shoes. Parents across the land are frustrated that they have no option but to buy online. That suits some people but it certainly does not suit many...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: May I again make it clear that I wish to see all the documentation? I am not surmising there is a vast quantity of it. On the contrary, I am asserting that there is very little documentation because the basis for the explanation that the Taoiseach, astonishingly, accepts from the Tánaiste is that he was acting in the public interest and on the basis of a deep and enduring level of...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is my view. I ask the Taoiseach again what he proposes to do. Will he ask the people simply to take all of this on the chin? Deputy Leo Varadkar's alibi was comprehensively dismantled on the floor of the Dáil. It bears no credibility.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is the Taoiseach going to do? What contact will he have with a man who has told the House that he routinely leaks from the Cabinet? Is that okay with the Taoiseach?

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Pathetic.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No danger of that.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Taoiseach threatening me?

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No danger of the Taoiseach-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Incorrect information has been entered into the record of the Dáil.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday afternoon the Taoiseach told the Dáil that he accepted Deputy Leo Varadkar's version of events regarding his leaking of a confidential document to his friend when he was Taoiseach. Yesterday evening Deputy Leo Varadkar, now Tánaiste and leader of Fine Gael, came to the Dáil to give his explanation of why he leaked this confidential and sensitive document to a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We can also get rhetorical answers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will add to colleagues' remarks. I will state it so that it is clearly understood. The Taoiseach raised the issue of schools North and South. The Taoiseach is right. On one side of the Border schools are closing and on the other they are remaining open. That is not so much due to the vagaries of Sinn Féin policy but to the reality that we have two different sets of public health...