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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I can feel another fact check coming on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The cost of living is putting enormous pressure on households. A report by Barnardos published this morning highlights the sharp impact on families and children. Nearly half of parents say they or their children have gone without or cut back on the basics over the past six months. This includes food, clothes, medicine, electricity and heat. Some 47% of parents say they are forced to cut...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We teach life, sir. We Palestinians teach life after they have occupied the last sky. We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, after the last skies. [...] We Palestinians wake up every morning to teach the rest of the world life, sir. These are the words of Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah. They are words that...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Palestinian struggle has gone on for generations. The catastrophe of the Nakba was only the start. For 76 years, the story of Palestine has been one of colonisation; occupation; apartheid; violent and brutal human rights atrocities at the hands of the Israeli state and its ferocious military; daily oppression that sees Palestinians killed, jailed, tortured and forced from their lands;...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Rather, they must confront them. Ireland and all of us must insist on that point. Today, along with Spain and Norway, we are taking a lead, but recognition of the Palestinian state cannot be the end. It has to be just a beginning, a new departure in pursuing freedom and justice for the Palestinians. The Irish Government must now follow recognition by enacting the Control of Economic...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is utterly damning.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: There were 113 patients on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick yesterday; the figure is 110 today. At the end of April, the Taoiseach deployed a HSE support team to the hospital to address pressures on health services in the mid-west region. A month on, nothing has changed. University Hospital Limerick remains in a constant state of emergency and is under huge pressure every single...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise again the issue of safety in Dublin city centre. Sadly, today, we have had another incident on Parnell Square where children have been left frightened and traumatised. People who live in the inner city of Dublin and its communities are sick and tired of the ongoing antisocial behaviour and the sense of threat and dread, sick and tired of the lack of support and services,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am astonished therefore if what the Taoiseach is saying is accurate why is it out on the canvass that the Taoiseach hears so much about this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Government's response has been so effective, how is it that the Taoiseach hears these accounts of vulture funds snatching up family homes when out on the canvass?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Are the people on the ground wrong as well? We live in a country where we have sky-high housing prices, sky-high rents, and record homelessness. Young people and their parents are frankly in despair. The Government's housing policy is not working and the Taoiseach should do a little bit more canvassing if he doubts me-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and he will find that I am reflecting the truth on the ground to him. The Government introduced the 10% stamp duty and, in fact, far from the number of bulk purchases falling, it actually accelerated year on year. I have the figures to hand. They were given to me by my colleague, Deputy Doherty, who received them by means of a response to a parliamentary question. The number of bulk...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: At a Fine Gael press conference, the Taoiseach told reporters that as he canvasses around the country, he has heard too many examples of the bulk-buying of homes by wealthy property funds, but, of course, he already knew this was happening and that it is not happening by accident. Property funds bulk-buying family homes is a direct result of Government policy. Over a decade ago, Fine Gael...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the case of a Palestinian woman (details supplied) who has fled from Gaza to join their family in County Dublin; and if she will take the necessary steps to support their visa application. [23606/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the final Climate Action Plan 2023 progress report, published by his Department in March 2024. [21666/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will next meet. [21362/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ireland's recognition of the state of Palestine is an historic step in the struggle for freedom, self-determination and human rights for the Palestinian people. I commend all those who campaigned for this over many decades. Today, the people of Gaza continue to endure slaughter, displacement and starvation inflicted upon them by an Israel that acts with impunity. Israel's attacks on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: One of the major criticisms in the Housing Commission's damning report relates to Government waste of money. The report states: "Ireland has, by comparison with our European partners, one of the highest levels of public expenditure for housing, yet one of the poorest outcomes." Why is that the case? It is because the Government decided to pass the State's responsibility for housing people...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The point is that the Housing Commission report is damning. It is not neutral in its assessment of the Government's performance; it is damning and states very clearly the Government's failures. An important failing it identifies is the fact that the Government has turned what should be a temporary, short-term support into a permanent feature in the lives of many people. The Taoiseach did...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [21363/24]