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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: A number of years ago, Sinn Féin introduced a Bill that would have capped the interest rates moneylenders can charge but the Taoiseach's party and the Labour Party voted it down. I put it to the Taoiseach that it is now time to introduce a cap on moneylenders to ensure they can no longer get away with their daylight robbery.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. His Government presides over an Ireland of soup kitchens, child homelessness, mothers queuing for formula and nappies, insecure employment and 300,000 people living in consistent poverty. To be clear, many of those people are at work. They get up at the crack of dawn and still struggle and fail to meet their basic requirements. I take it the Taoiseach is not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does he regard it as acceptable that people are ripped off in this way? In the context of the credit union It Makes Sense loan, I suggest that, rather than offering excuses to the House, the Taoiseach might act more vigorously and further resource that approach with the credit unions. It is a good approach-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----but there are credit unions from which it is not available. There is no point preaching to people to look for alternatives when for so many families there is simply no other alternative bar these vultures.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent ASEM summit. [49145/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Digital Strategy (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recently announced consultation process in respect of the national digital strategy. [49144/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in Dublin 7 who are on a waiting list to access an ASD unit. [49523/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in Dublin 1 who are on a waiting list to access an ASD unit. [49524/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if women eligible to apply to the Magdalen redress scheme (details supplied) are not required to provide proof or evidence of the hours they worked in cases in which this information is provided to the best of their ability. [49011/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the recently published addendum to the terms of the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia scheme includes a provision that the calculation of the lump sum redress payment will be made on the basis that no child under 12 years of age worked in a Magdalen laundry, unless an applicant provides evidence of such work...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (27 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 427 of 6 November 2018, when a reply will issue. [49410/18]

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tairgim leasú Uimh. 2:To insert the following after “an integral part of the Draft Agreement”: “— further resolves that the rights of citizens in the North are protected and vindicated as outlined in the Joint report from the negotiators of the European Union and the United Kingdom Government on progress during phase 1 of negotiations under Article 50 TEU on...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody asked Sinn Féin.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should not talk about hard borders then. Then talk of Border polls would not undermine that work.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: What are the Taoiseach's plans for the re-establishment of the Assembly and the Executive in the North? Prior to the summer recess he indicated that there would be an initiative in the autumn. We are now decisively moving into the winter and there is no word of any sustainable initiative. Nobody should be surprised at the DUP's rejection of the Barnier deal. I urge Members to remember...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach must clarify two matters for us. First, he must clarify whether the maximum facilitation proposal that was rejected by the European Union for sound reasons is being advanced again? Second, will he clarify for us whether any other similar proposition is being advanced that would hollow out or offer something less than that being afforded in the current backstop? I agree with...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the Cabinet yesterday gave the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, the go-ahead to bring forward a Bill to provide for a referendum that, if passed, would ensure the continued public ownership of water services. The Taoiseach spoke earlier about cross-party consensus, which he seems to support at this juncture. I remind the Government that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This week, balloting for industrial action began among more than 40,000 nurses and midwives. This is a mark and a measure of the desperation and frustration of nurses and midwives. The Minister for Finance, by way of response to this ballot, is hard-balling nursing and midwifery staff by claiming that their pay demands would compromise budgetary policy. He made this claim just two days...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, there are 425 people on hospital trolleys, including 14 children. There are 63 people on trolleys in Limerick, for example, 34 in Cork University Hospital and 34 in Tallaght Hospital. I could go on and recite the litany right across the State. In my opening remarks I said that there is only one application for every four nursing and midwifery vacancies in the system. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not on the issue of pay-----