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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It renamed the minimum wage.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the latter.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too raise the TASC report published this morning. It shows a disproportionate share of national income accrues to richer groups in society and consequently a lower share to the less well-off section of society. The report finds that the bottom 40% of the State's population receives just 22% of the national income while the top 10% receives almost 25%. It does not take a genius to work...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I could not underscore more strongly the fact that this turn of events has again dashed and damaged confidence in the PSNI. The families want to meet the Taoiseach. They look to the Taoiseach for his support and as the Taoiseach who has said famously that no citizen will be left behind in the North of Ireland.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: They have been left behind. They want to meet the Taoiseach. Will the Taoiseach meet them?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [6556/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Northern Ireland and the meetings he attended. [7985/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Some 764 days ago, when the Executive was brought down, it had fallen into massive public disrepute. Of course Deputy Micheál Martin and others would know that if they were actually organised on the ground, as some of the rest of us are, and if they enjoyed an electoral mandate from the communities that said they would not tolerate the likes of the renewable heat incentive scheme. An...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I invite the Taoiseach to reiterate that the backstop, the Irish protocol as per the withdrawal agreement, remains the bottom line for this State and for the Government. Can the Taoiseach confirm that he told Mrs. May at dinner that this is the case? Can he confirm that the backstop cannot be time limited in any respect and cannot contain unilateral exit clauses, which would render the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [8286/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question is about the so-called Brexit omnibus Bill that is central to the Government's response to a potential no-deal Brexit. I understand this matter was considered in the Cabinet today. Has the Cabinet now signed off on the Bill? When will the Bill be published and what are the arrangements for taking the Bill through the Houses over the coming weeks?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the Taoiseach himself who is spinning the yarns but he is not on his own. I understand the Minister for Health is attempting to spin a line that there is nothing to see here and that the cost overruns, or the cost underestimations, as the Taoiseach put them, were really no big deal. He seems to imagine that there is a magic money tree somewhere from which he can draw resources.

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

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The Members on the Fine Gael benches need to accept that any claims they may have made to fiscal prudence, to minding the house and to watching the taxpayers' purse have been well and truly blown out of the water at this stage. Can the Taoiseach guarantee that the 60-bed modular ward for Limerick will be delivered on time? Can he give us a precise timeline because the view among people in...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I am afraid the Ceann Comhairle might save that remark for his Fianna Fáil colleagues as well.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: He might look towards them also.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: In the meantime, it is incumbent on the Taoiseach to make clear which specific projects are being axed as a result of the overrun on the national children's hospital project in the health service and elsewhere, including flood defences. Across the State people have a right to receive accurate information from the Taoiseach.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Under the watch of the Taoiseach, the Minister, Deputy Harris, has led our health service into a state of absolute crisis. In recent weeks, nurses and midwives were forced to engage in strike action because their legitimate and correct concerns in respect of the recruitment and retention crisis were ignored by the Taoiseach and his Government. GPs have protested outside Leinster House at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Members (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken or overseen an assessment of the tailored training programme for elected members of local authorities announced on the 23 May 2014 as part of the programme of local government reforms announced in 2014. [8328/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (13 Feb 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if additional staff have been recruited in his Department to work on Brexit preparedness. [5488/19]