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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This afternoon, thousands of people will gather outside these gates to take a stand against the housing and homelessness crisis. This is no stunt. These are people who have studied and who live the facts. These are people taking a stand against the fact that the policies of the Government have left almost 10,000 people homeless. They are raising their voices and recording their deep...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will tell the Taoiseach what we should do. Let us go out to the people at the gate in an hour's time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let us test whose credibility is in question on the issue of housing and homelessness. It is not mine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the credibility of the Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin and Fianna Fáil as a party.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: People know who the authors of this catastrophe are and they know it is not Sinn Féin. Far from acting as if we are in an emergency, the Taoiseach has been timid and a lackey to private landlords. He has sat on the sidelines in the vain hope that the market will sort it all out, even though all of the evidence tells him that the market is not sorting this out, that the State has to do...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week or the week before, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of the Tuam mother and baby home. He reflected on the fact that he had visited the site in a personal capacity. I understand he has made a commitment to meet Catherine Corless and the survivors. He might inform us if there has been any progress made on such a meeting. When the Pope visited, the Minister for Children...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: And when there are kids in bed and breakfast accommodation and hostels.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a matter of investing in people.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is raining.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Oh dear.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Pope Francis. [38475/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A (economy) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [38474/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I share the concerns raised by Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett and add the issue of the corporate tax honeymoon period extended to the banks. I also add issues related to the taxation of intangible assets held by multinationals, a loophole which was partially closed by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, but which requires a full and final resolution. I noticed in the Taoiseach's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It should at this juncture be clear even to Deputy Micheál Martin that at the heart of the crisis and the hiatus in the institutions in the North is the fact that the DUP has not embraced the Good Friday Agreement. We can only have a functioning system of power-sharing where we have parties that are open to power-sharing. We cannot indefinitely suspend the expectations of an entire...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the Chancellor of Austria, Mr. Sebastian Kurz, since July 2018. [37517/18]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning customers of a number of banks did not receive child benefit and other social welfare payments owing to a systems wide banking issue. I appreciate that it was not an error of the Government, but, of course, it has caused considerable concern and anxiety for many who rely on these payments. Will the Taoiseach confirm for the House that the systems error has been corrected and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that response. I echo his sentiments in respect of the achievements of the last 20 years. All of that should be acknowledged in spite of the fact the institutions are currently not operational. It needs to be acknowledged also that in order for power-sharing to work, in order for the institutions to be re-established, the spirit and the letter of the Good Friday...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: In an interview published in this morning's edition of The Daily Telegraphthe leader of the DUP Arlene Foster had this to say:It has been deeply frustrating to hear people who voted remain and in Europe talk about Northern Ireland as though we can’t touch the Belfast Agreement. Things evolve, even in the EU context. There has been a lot of misinterpretation, holding it [the Good...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am delighted that the Taoiseach raised with the Palestinian President, Mr. Abbas, issues relating to women's rights and LGBT rights. No doubt in giving Mr. Abbas the benefit of his wisdom, the Taoiseach would also have reflected that he and his colleagues themselves are relatively recent converts to those causes. I am sure the Taoiseach can assist Mr. Abbas in walking that journey. I...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The inquiry is not history; it is under way.