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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and, if all else fails, plan B. We have offered the Government a plan B by way of using the established ESB network.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has resisted that thus far. Will the Taoiseach consider it if the situation comes to that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: A laissez-faire attitude to money.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is now tied to one bidder which has the bargaining power, not the State. If the process fails or the Government decides to ditch it, what is plan B?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Leaving households, businesses and communities in the lurch is not a policy option here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach says he wants more time but we know from a response to a parliamentary question submitted by my colleague, an Teachta Stanley, that 80 civil servants and consultants have been working on this tender process for over two years. The whole process has been marked by delay, which has generated massive frustration and impatience right across those rural homes and communities which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The world looked on with horror at the inferno at Notre Dame cathedral. I and my colleagues extend our sympathies to the people of Paris, in particular, and to everybody who visited and loved that great cathedral. It will be rebuilt. The Taoiseach stated last December that the cost of the national broadband plan roll out could amount to many multiples of what was originally estimated....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he will take following the adoption of a resolution (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17273/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (11 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a defined benefit pension scheme (details supplied) has been closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17033/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits that the Government will actively fulfil its mandate as co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement. Today marks the 21st anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. That agreement has delivered peace and fundamentally changed relationships across Ireland and the relationship with Britain. It promised power sharing, equality and the potential...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: For those of us who live in the real world, let me set out what has happened. There has been a €450 million overrun and counting. Those are public moneys that will have to be found somewhere. This whole fiasco has been overseen by a Minister who is clearly incompetent. At this stage he is a lame duck Minister whom the Government, with the assistance of Fianna Fáil, insists on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not an underestimate, it is an overestimate

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Our health service is in a state of perpetual crisis. Overcrowding at our accident and emergency departments and hospitals worsens by the day and yesterday the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar became the latest hospital to announce it was at maximum capacity and to advise patients to stay away. That follows the dangerous level of overcrowding we have witnessed in Cork University...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Office of the Information Commissioner was consulted by his officials when drafting the Retention of Records Bill 2019. [16826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Data Protection Commission was consulted by his officials when drafting the Retention of Records Bill 2019. [16827/19]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Táim buíoch as an deis labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo um thráthnóna. Once again, the European Council meets tomorrow to discuss the Brexit debacle and specifically to discuss another request by the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, for an extension to the Article 50 process. Brexit was a bad decision made worse by the refusal of the British Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would have thought that the DUP's position is very clear. I want to raise the DeSouza case as well. Does Deputy Burton have a problem?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The DeSouza case represents a real breach of faith by the British Home Office, which, as has been pointed out, now insists that persons are British citizens even when they clearly are not. Not only that, people now have to pay the princely sum of £400 in order to renounce a Britishness that does not pertain to them. This case has caused very considerable anger right across the North of...