Results 20,501-20,520 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: You do not let young women die on trolleys or lying across chairs. That is what you do not do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is my policy. You do not allow young women to die in a hospital, lying on chairs. How is that for a policy?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The British Government's legacy Act is a cynical and callous attempt to block victims and families from ever getting justice through the courts and to hide the role of British state forces and their agencies in the conflict. Today, that Act takes effect, to their very great shame. I have raised this issue many times previously. I accept that the Government has lodged an interstate case...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [17374/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the updated guidelines/procedures on the use of school buildings outside of school hours will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19704/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any consultation has taken place with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability and Youth regarding the updating of guidelines/procedures on the use of school buildings outside of school hours, noting the challenges being faced by afterschool services in securing sustainable use of school buildings to accommodate afterschool services;...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Media Sector (2 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail Global Ireland Media Challenge Fund reporting or projects to be carried out by news organisations which received grant-aid in the 2024 round of funding. [20101/24]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are now four weeks out from the most important local and European Union elections for a generation and housing is the number one talking point at the doors. It is the biggest issue by far for workers and families across the State. After 13 years of Fine Gael in government, the housing crisis has gone from bad to worse. Rip-off rents continue to rise, homelessness has hit record levels...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I mentioned a number of counties - Louth, Mayo, Sligo and Tipperary - and could have added Cavan, Leitrim, Offaly and Roscommon. These are the official figures. This is an official record of the Government's abysmal failure - the failure of the State to deliver affordable homes to purchase and rent. By the targets the Government set itself, it has failed. It is a big fail. I have never...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, when the Taoiseach was challenged about the tent city that had grown up on Mount Street, he said the law of the land must be applied and that this would not be repeated. Yet, here we are, and it has been repeated, this time along the Grand Canal where there are now some 100 tents. It is an outrage that any human being would be living in a tent on the side of the street or on a...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that the Taoiseach's answer to my question? Jesus.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are not, actually.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are now five months into 2024 and the health service still has not published its staffing plan for the year. The Secretary General of the Department of Health confirmed this morning that the moratorium or embargo is still in place and that the strategy is at a political level waiting on a decision from Government. I have lost count of the number of bright, talented young health and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [17375/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the child poverty and well-being unit. [17376/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 33. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. [20334/24]
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: We mark the 74th anniversary of the signing of the Schuman Declaration, which revolutionised the political, economic and social landscape of Europe. When Ireland joined on 1 January 1973, I was a baby. My colleague here, Deputy Carthy, was not even a twinkle in his mammy's eye. Both of us have grown up in a country that has known nothing other than to be part of what was an economic...