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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: For the past two years the north inner city has been without any drugs and alcohol task force. For those two years the HSE has consistently and wrongly claimed the task force acted outside of its remit or beyond its powers in its appointment of its new chairperson. The HSE and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, issued a statement yesterday that they will reconstitute the drug task...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fact of the matter is the HSE has toppled the community leadership there. It is disgraceful behaviour by the HSE and the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thousands of students are marching in protest from the Garden of Remembrance to the Dáil today to protest the Government's failure to tackle student accommodation crisis and the soaring cost of going to college. Students tell us that they are drowning in costs as they struggle to afford third-level education. So many cannot find an affordable home near to their college, so they couch...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: My eyes are wide open. Listening to the Taoiseach, one would imagine there is no problem at all. One would scratch one's head and wonder why thousands of our young brightest and best are mobilising on the streets today because according to the Taoiseach, there is no problem. According to him, it is not a problem that students commute for hours and hours to the extent that their social...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: They come here to ask questions of the Taoiseach and the Government as to what they will do, and it seems the Taoiseach is coming up blank for them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not good enough. What will the Taoiseach do in next week's budget to make a real difference in these young people's lives?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise with the Taoiseach his Government's handling of the nitrates derogation, which has caused a huge amount of anger and stress for farmers. The issue originates in the Government's decision to sign up to a flawed review mechanism in the first place. As the Taoiseach will be aware, farmers acted on and implemented measures to improve water quality but time has not been allowed...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not the commitment the Government made to the farmers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Once again, the conflict in the Middle East has reached the edge of a dangerous and frightening precipice. The attacks by Hamas on Israel at the weekend have rightly been met with outrage in Ireland and internationally and I join in that condemnation unreservedly. There is no justification for targeting civilians and taking civilians hostage, and all hostages should be released immediately....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I very much welcome the Taoiseach's confirmation of the fact that aid will continue to the Palestinian people and his insistence, quite correctly, that the rule of law be applied equally, without fear or favour, that the Israeli state is not exempt from the rules that apply to all others, and that the Palestinian people have rights that are inalienable and that must be vindicated, not just...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It will come as no surprise to anyone who takes an interest in Irish political life that the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach spent a disproportionate amount of their time ráméising about Sinn Féin. Had they any confidence in their own actual budget and performance in government, they would have structured their remarks rather differently. It is small wonder because the budget...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The gloves need to come off now when it comes to tackling and ending the housing crisis, but once again this Government has failed to land a punch. In this budget, the Government has confirmed beyond doubt that Fianna Fáil- and Fine Gael-led Governments are bad for the health of ordinary workers and families. They certainly threw the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly,...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It will be felt by the hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting to get a hospital appointment, by the children living in agony as they wait and wait for life-changing spinal procedures and by the older people and sick people being left on trolleys in overcrowded and unsafe hospital corridors. One would not think that we have a recruitment and retention crisis across the health...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (10 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance how many requests for appeal hearings with the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal) are currently in hand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43738/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (10 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance when appeal hearings with the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal) will recommence for persons who have had a primary medical certificate application deemed ineligible. [43739/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (10 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on his Department’s engagement with NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital) regarding the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board Of Appeal); have financial arrangements been agreed with NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital); have the NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital) agreed to host the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (10 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date by his Department regarding the replacement of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43741/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (10 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance whether a review of regulations underpinning the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme and primary medical certificate scheme has taken place arising from the Supreme Court challenge to the conflict between the regulations and primary legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43742/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (10 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the Office of Public Works is responsible for land in County Dublin (details supplied). [43800/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response will be issued to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied). [43684/23]