Results 121-140 of 21,647 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The budget the Minister's Government announces in two weeks' time must be about ending the rip-off, getting costs under control and supporting workers and families. Households struggle just to make ends meet, hammered by soaring prices at every turn. Yesterday, Kantar reported that grocery prices have shot up again in the last 12 weeks. Of course, people did not need a research report to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has run out of money.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has run out of money.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will meet next. [46217/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise the current situation of Gaelscoil Coláiste Mhuire. As the Taoiseach knows, it is located on Parnell Square in Dublin. This school was at the centre of a shocking and very violent attack in November 2023. The ramifications of that day are still deeply felt within the school community emotionally and, in some cases, physically. In the aftermath of this horrific event,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think the Taoiseach's assertion of such confidence is gravely misplaced, but how and ever. I wish to raise the issue of the Clashduv Road flats in Togher, in the Taoiseach's own constituency. I visited them in May with an Teachta Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire and Councillor Joe Lynch. As the Taoiseach knows, there are similar flats across the southside of Cork city, at Togher Road, Cherry...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [46216/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's plan to withdraw energy credits in October's budget is a terrible one. Last week, almost half a million customers were informed by their energy companies that they would be hit with massive electricity bill hikes from next month. Irish households already pay among the highest electricity prices in Europe and now these energy companies squeeze struggling families again. Then...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Neither are you, and you are the Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Well, go and engage with them. You are in charge, are you not?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, you are not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: You are sitting on the wrong side of the House now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also propose an amendment to the Order of Business under Standing Order 35(3)-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that we have an urgent debate on the issue of energy costs and the absolute need for energy credits to be extended and included in the budget on 7 October. Almost 500,000 customers have-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----received a letter telling them that they will face a hike-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have 30 seconds to state the amendment and speak to it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have posed the amendment.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need this debate. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for her efficiency in containing the conversation on the floor.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: As Harvey waited for the surgery that he required, the curvature of his spine deteriorated from 75° to 130°. I do not know if the Taoiseach saw him. The poor wee child was literally doubled over. He struggled to breathe. He waited and waited, and he is not unique. He is unique now in as much as he is emblematic of the wholesale manner in which many other children have been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I extend my comhghairdeas to both Deputies on very significant and joyous life events. Harvey Morrison Sherratt died on 29 July. Last week I spoke again with his parents, Stephen and Gillian. They are heartbroken and shattered by the loss of their beautiful little boy, and we again send them our condolences and our love. Harvey had a very short life. He was only nine years old when he...