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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a chair count.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the number of special advisers in his Department; and the areas of policy to which they are assigned. [45088/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if A Programme for Partnership Government progress report will be published in December 2018. [42203/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The obvious question to ask is whether or not this current Dáil will still be here come May 2019. Whereas the toing and froing - it seems to me like a sham battle between Fine Gael and its partners in government, Fianna Fáil - might be depicted as a matter for themselves, it has implications for the entirety of the Dáil and, more importantly, for policy delivery and for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent engagements with the National Economic and Social Council. [42202/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: One of those key long-term challenges that requires long-term planning is climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy. I know one of the main areas of the work of NESC is in this arena. Last week the European Parliament approved four of the eight proposals comprising its clean energy package for 2020 to 2030. The directives in question originally had binding renewable energy...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister did not answer the question.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a specific issue which concerns girls younger than 12 years.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are asking for evidence which people cannot provide owing to the passage of time.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week or perhaps the week before, in response to questions on promised legislation and the programme for Government, the Taoiseach indicated that the Government would deal in a whole and compassionate way with survivors of the Magdalen laundries. Over the course of the weekend, I read that under the scheme women who worked in the laundries when they were girls under the age of 12 will be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 14 November, I think it was, I was in Sligo Grammar School at a remembrance service which was absolutely wonderful and inclusive.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Indeed, all of the party leaders had been invited but I went and I paid my respects there. This is the list of the categories of workers to which this flat-rate expenses scheme applies. It includes people such as panel beaters, kitchen porters, nurses and members of the Defence Forces, whom we all know are appallingly paid at the lower ranks in any event. The Taoiseach wants to create for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, Deputy Pearse Doherty advises me that the Taoiseach's response indicated that none of this kicks in until 2020. In the answer Deputy Doherty received, he was advised that it takes effect from 1 January 2019. The date is looming. I ask the Taoiseach again. Notwithstanding his jibes against me, will he, for once, empathise-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----put himself in the shoes of retail workers, of shop assistants-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and give them a break for once?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I see arriving into the Gallery some of the Stardust families who have handed in a petition today. I extend a very warm welcome to them and wish them the very best in their campaign to reopen the inquest into that fire on St. Valentine's Day 1981. Tá fáilte romhaibh. At the weekend, to rapturous applause, the Taoiseach made the bold claim that he would, if re-elected, deliver...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----intangible assets, would have raised €750 million.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: When it comes to priorities, it is obvious where the Government stands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ordinary workers fall to the bottom of the pile yet again.