Results 5,441-5,460 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (21 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a new covenant between church and State. [18732/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to set down the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department in 2018; and the number of requests granted, partially granted and refused. [17456/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Leadership Team met on 14 May 2019 to consider additional information submitted by the manufacturer of the drug Spinraza; and when the team will make a final decision on the reimbursement of the drug based on this information. [21754/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 164. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the recent sale of a former mother and baby home (details supplied); and the action she will take to exclude potential burial sites from the sale following the recent finding of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes that an organisation failed to provide evidence that infants were...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last night, the House debated Second Stage of Sinn Féin's Bill to provide for the constitutional right of every citizen to adequate, secure and affordable housing, a key recommendation of the Constitutional Convention. Fine Gael and its partners, Fianna Fáil, have chosen to say no to that proposal and both parties have stated that they will not support the legislation when it is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Things are tetchy between the partners in government today. Yesterday it was announced that the European Commission, under the stewardship of the Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, is to undertake a formal antitrust investigation into Insurance Ireland's data pooling system. I welcome that announcement. It is a decision which will be welcomed by motorists across the State...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has confirmed what we all know, namely, that insurance premiums having skyrocketed by 70% between the years 2013 and 2016 are only now moderating. We all know that drivers, particularly younger drivers, have been locked out of obtaining insurance for a long time. The Taoiseach talks a good game but his claim that this has been a priority for Government is at odds with the...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am proud to stand here this evening and support this Bill. The Bill is intended to provide all citizens with a constitutional right to adequate, secure and affordable housing and to give effect to the decision by 80% of participants in the Constitutional Convention that such a right should be enshrined in Bunreacht na hÉireann. Providing for the constitutional right to a home will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I simply want to know what has changed between 2018 and now. This was to be a priority. It was a must do item. What has changed the Government's perspective?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [17457/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, the Minister for Justice and Equality brought a memo to Cabinet in respect of a study to be carried out on the introduction of domestic homicide reviews in addition to other supports for victims of familicide. I extend again my deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Clodagh Hawe, including her mother Mary and her sister Jacqueline, and those of her three sons, Liam,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: These suggestions need to be fully considered.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C (European Union including Brexit) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [15017/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach said, a no-deal outcome remains a real and most undesirable possibility in the Brexit scenario. This is causing huge difficulties across Irish society, North and South. Damage is already accruing to many industrial and economic sectors, not least agriculture and farming. Also, the population has been unnerved by the lack of clarity around whether a deal will in fact be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a decision which the majority of Irish people support. I resent deeply the spending of even 1 cent of the taxes I pay to facilitate participation in what should be a celebratory event but which is now deeply unacceptable for being held in Israel.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Taoiseach has a view on that matter, he might share it with us.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, the rent pressure zone legislation is doing nothing for renters - that is the fact - who are facing rents of between €1,300 and €2,200 on new homes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is clear that we need new measures that will work. What we need immediately is a rent freeze. I am asking if the Taoiseach will finally accept that his plans have failed and act definitively to protect renters.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is not protecting them.