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- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Be clear that students and parents will not be fooled by the Government's spin, because they will feel it in their pockets. Budget 2026 should have abolished student fees for good. The Government should be on a pathway to that. That is what it should have done, but it chose not to. We provided for a cut of €1,500 on the pathway to that. That was the right thing to do. Broken...
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: This budget comes at a time when ordinary households are reeling from a cost-of-living crisis that is out of control. Workers and families are hit by rip-off prices in every direction. It is getting harder and harder to make ends meet and to keep up, and it shows no sign of letting up. It is rent, big electricity and gas bills, runaway food prices, the cost of petrol and diesel, crippling...
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: You can answer it now.
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The fees have gone up.
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Take that up with the British Government.
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: If the Tánaiste is concerned about British policy, he should take it up with the British Government.
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is very sensitive.
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is Fianna Fáil speaking.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach told me only a few short weeks ago that, "We will do what we can on taxation to alleviate the pressure on people." No one took that to mean landlords and developers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: We thought he meant working people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: We thought he meant people who generate all of these billions of euro in surpluses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Taoiseach explain again to the working people of Ireland how he arrived at the decision-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to spend €9.4 billion and leave them worse off?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Explain that, Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Cheann Comhairle, in fairness, he never answers anyway.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Workers are worse off today because of the Government’s budget. They are in shock and disbelief. What the Government delivered yesterday abandons and betrays working people to look after those at the top. The Taoiseach says the Government's budget was about protecting the economy, but it has pulled the rug from under the very people who are the engine of that economy. They are the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: When do they get their fair share? The Government is not giving it in its budget. Does the Taoiseach even recognise the hurt and anger that working people are feeling today? Why did the Government deliberately choose to deliver a budget that leaves them worse off?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Ní sé sin fíor.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do not rise to that. Do not rise to it.