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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Leo fiddles while Rome burns. I am glad the Taoiseach has shared with us his deep commitment to homeownership. I am glad he at least recognises that there is a crisis and that homeownership for a whole generation is off the cards unless their mammy and daddy can help out with a deposit. The Taoiseach is missing the point of my question, perhaps deliberately. I have set out for him the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Ceann Comhairle or, rather, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am sorry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was just getting the Chair's title right. Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the UN special rapporteur on adequate housing's damning condemnation of the Government's record on housing. New research published in The Economic and Social Reviewfurther illustrates the points I raised last week and shows that many households and individuals are paying more than half of their incomes on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: According to page 33 of A Programme for a Partnership Government, the Government "will seek to alleviate pressures affecting household budgets across energy, childcare, medical and insurance costs." The Tánaiste may know that Electric Ireland and PrePayPower have announced price increases for gas and electricity, raising the cost of living further for ordinary working families. This...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The status black escalation, as the Tánaiste knows, is essentially a declaration that a hospital is no longer safe. In Cork University Hospital, as I said, the position was unsafe for patients in the first instance but also for staff. Some of those staff, who have worked within the system for decades and up to 30 years, told us directly that they have never seen the like of this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Over the last number of months, we have regrettably borne witness to the scale of the crisis facing our health service on the watch of the Minister, Deputy Harris. The debacle surrounding the cost of the national children's hospital rumbles on, nurses and midwives have had to engage in industrial action, one-in-seven consultant posts is vacant and support staff have announced their intention...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (2 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the policy on direct provision residents’ voting rights, access to election related materials and the right to meet with candidates in the public areas of centres. [15155/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (2 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 489. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the mechanisms she has put in place to enable the collaborative forum of former residents of mother and baby homes and related institutions to facilitate the active participation of former residents in recommending actions and solutions to address their concerns including those issues raised in the reports of the facilitated meetings and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (2 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 490. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the mechanisms she has put in place to enable the collaborative forum of former residents of mother and baby homes and related institutions have a role in monitoring the implementation of measures designed to support former residents. [15445/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Child Abuse Reports (28 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will publish the United Nations special rapporteur report on the sale and sexual exploitation of children in Ireland. [14546/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke to the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [10784/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the public consultations under way or planned by his Department for 2019. [10478/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the EU-League of Arab States summit. [10783/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits to targeted improvements in public services with a particular focus on disability issues. It also commits to ensuring that transport service provision for people with disabilities is fit for purpose and consistent with their needs, yet Bus Éireann's brand new, state-of-the-art city buses are actually less accessible for wheelchair users than the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ah, look after the landlords.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I join the Taoiseach in extending our sympathy to and expressing our solidarity with Laura's family and friends as they remember her today. I am also sorry to hear of the passing of John Browne. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. Yesterday the United Nations' special rapporteur for adequate housing lists, Leilani Farha, issued a damning condemnation of the Government's record...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's position could not be more ideological. He is blinded by his own ideology and prevented from doing the very obvious, common-sense, pragmatic and necessary things by a fierce ideology that insists on the market sorting it out and that the State and the Government sitting on the sidelines as observers, crossing their fingers and hoping for the best in trying to talk the issue...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----by my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, to prevent landlords from seeking vacant possession. To translate it into real English, it means preventing landlords from casting families into homelessness in order that they can sell on properties.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am appealing to the Government to support that measure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is not building houses.