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- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last night there was yet another harrowing programme about the mother and baby homes. This programme covered the situation in Bessborough. I want to ask the Taoiseach about the publication of the second interim report from the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, had indicated that the report would be published...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that "Yes" or "No"?
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (5 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of newly built social housing units that have been constructed in Dublin 7 and 9 in the past 12 months in tabular form. [17028/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The question asked the Taoiseach to outline his plans up to the end of June 2017.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: He might like to take this opportunity to illuminate us further on whether he will be Taoiseach at that stage. We discussed earlier the Council meeting of 29 April at which guidelines will be agreed. The Taoiseach and the Government have four weeks in which to speak to our EU partners. I believe it is necessary to amend the existing paragraph 11 guideline we discussed earlier. It is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about the amendment to paragraph 11?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Never mind the two Murphys.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I also asked about the amendment to paragraph 11.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I asked whether the Taoiseach is open to amending paragraph 11.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The European Parliament resolution is much better. We agree on that point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, I do not accept the Taoiseach's logic regarding Ireland, the North and his points on Gibraltar. They are different situations, but I still regard-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am well aware of that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----but that does not in any way relieve the Taoiseach-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I accept it. Of course I know that Gibraltar, the North and the Irish situation are different. For goodness sake, talk about a statement of the obvious. The Taoiseach cannot be relieved in the way that he has sought of the responsibility that he carries to attain maximum negotiating leverage in respect of the rights and interests of all of Ireland, including the North.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe that the Taoiseach has arrived at that position.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We will debate that again, I am sure.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not diverting anything.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am responding to the gibberish that I had to endure for the past couple of minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: If we cannot agree on much else, we all accept that Brexit is a major threat to the economies on this island. A weekend report in The Sunday Business Postclaimed that the Government was afraid that Irish companies would relocate to Britain to avoid tariffs and currency risks. It also claimed to have received a series of internal Government documents under freedom of information request that...