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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have all known for some time that access to vile and violent material, including that of a pornographic nature , on the Internet and through social media is deeply troubling and has real life consequences. When there is a high-profile case such as that which we have seen, it crystallises everybody's attention on the issue. The Taoiseach has made a commitment to establish an office of a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will always insist that the health service is fully and properly resourced but we will always call the Government out, not on its spending but on its waste of public moneys and its wilful disregard for the public purse. Everybody has seen that, in particular in the case of the children's hospital.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is required here is not an intervention by the Labour Court or any other third party but for the Taoiseach to keep his word. That is what he has failed to do. We heard this line before about nursing staff and midwives and now we hear it about chefs and healthcare assistants. The Taoiseach waxes lyrical about their contribution to the system but he is not prepared to pay them. As Head...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: This dispute is scheduled to take place tomorrow, when 10,000 workers who are absolutely essential to the functioning of our health services will take to the picket line. These are low-paid workers such as chefs and healthcare assistants. This strike will happen because the Government has broken its word. The Taoiseach knows, as the workers know, that back in 2015 there was an agreement to...

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Táim fíor-bhuíoch as an deis labhairt ar an mBille tabhachtach seo agus iaraim tacaíocht ó gach aon Teachta dó. If passed, as I hope it will be, the Bill will represent an important step forward in strengthening workers’ rights, particularly for those in the hospitality sector, who are often on low pay and who suffer disproportionate levels of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the proposed Citizens' Assembly in respect of a directly elected mayor of Dublin. [25072/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if will report on his recent meeting with the President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald Trump. [24206/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the First Minister of Scotland, Ms Nicola Sturgeon. [23295/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was one of three.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would have thought that time would be set aside to discuss this plan, this whole-of-government approach, because the issues are very real in terms of how we transition to a low-carbon society and economy and how we achieve climate justice. A debate on this is very urgent. The Government ought to have scheduled time for it this week.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: On the same issue, can the Taoiseach explain to us why it is that Ruth Morrissey discovered the fact of this appeal through the media? Can he explain to us how it was that nobody had the decency or the common sense to contact her directly or to contact her legal representative? Whatever the legal twists and turns of this appeal and whatever way the Government might pursue the laboratory, can...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. The Government's climate action plan was launched yesterday with great aplomb with members of the Cabinet arriving in a hybrid bus, which I understand is one of very few such buses in the fleet. Is there three of them?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody is criticising them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: She tells of how these had traumatic affects on people's lives. She describes a culture of fear. Are there more Majellas out there? What will the Taoiseach do establish the full facts? Majella said yesterday that she spoke with Deputy Michael Noonan who was Minister for Justice in 1983, but she spoke to him ten years ago and at that point he said to her that this was an internal Garda matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The mind boggles as to how this could ever have been an internal Garda matter. I understand that Deputy Michael Noonan has not responded to this matter. Should he now make a statement and has the Taoiseach spoken with him on the issue?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with the Taoiseach that the next steps must in the first instance be dictated by Majella but I also think that the State has an obligation, retrospectively, to ensure, for example, that she is awarded her full pension. There is an obligation on the State not to speculate that there may well be other Majellas but to establish the full facts of the matter. It seems anecdotally that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is right that those of us who grew up in the 1980s recognise this atmosphere and ideology as set out through Majella's story. It is important in the here and now that we give absolute assurances, and that it is made absolutely clear, that we in fact live in a different Ireland. On that basis, the former Minister for Justice, Deputy Michael Noonan, should make a statement and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will try. I want to raise the case of Majella Moynihan. I am sure all of us, listening as Majella told her devastating story, have been moved and deeply saddened by her experiences. For those of us who were children in the 1980s, I think this transported us back to that Ireland - that awful, oppressive, misogynistic Ireland. Majella told her story. She told of her background as a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens Assembly (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 85. To ask the Taoiseach the terms of reference for the citizens' assembly on gender equality. [25416/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Carer's Allowance Payments (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that guards in the Irish Prison Service whose families are in receipt of a carer's allowance have recently had their payments suspended following an instruction by inspectors from his Department that all carer's allowance payments be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....