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Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The country has had enough of Fine Gael in power, enough of Fianna Fáil propping them up, enough of record homelessness, eye watering rents and runaway housing prices and enough of a Government which believes that €500,000 is the price of an affordable home. A general election is coming; it cannot come soon enough. When it does, Sinn Féin will make its case and the people...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. We have a great country-----

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and we can deliver so much better for people on things that matter-----

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----on housing, on health, on the opportunities to build a good life here, where housing is affordable, where healthcare is accessible, where the State has your back and supports you when you need them. That is what we need. That is what Sinn Féin offers: a Government that is on the side of workers and families, opening the corridors of power to the voices of ordinary people, new...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need better than leaving children with scoliosis on waiting lists for years and breaking promises to them again and again. That is what this Government has done. We need an end to policies that leave workers and families worse off since you came to office due to rip-off prices. The out-of-control costs must end. We can and we will do so much better so. Bring on the election. Bring...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I heard the news that our colleagues Deputies Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy have announced they are not going forward for re-election. I acknowledge them as two mighty and formidable women in leadership. I wish them both the very best in the future. A moment of girl power, I feel, which is rare enough in these Chambers. Two thirds of people believe it is harder than...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The problem is that he will not answer the question. Is €475,000 affordable for those people in need of an affordable home? The Taoiseach will also not accept that transferring public land to private developers is simply the wrong policy. It is not the way to develop and to deliver truly affordable homes and the Government should not be transfer a prime inner-city location, land so...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am happy to say to the Taoiseach that we accept the finding of the Housing Commission-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that the Government's policy is failing and failing miserably.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Please, answer my question about affordability, Taoiseach, if he could?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and I would be obliged.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. It is welcome that the Labour Court has finally formally intervened in the ongoing pay dispute between Aer Lingus and the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association. I do not think it can be overstated how essential it is that a resolution is found to this dispute, for families who are worried their holidays may be cancelled, but equally for the tourism and hospitality sectors...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It seems waste collection companies are threatening to hike prices for collecting recycling bins. Their claim is that this is to make up for the loss of plastic bottles and drink cans to the deposit return scheme that is now in place. If this price hike goes ahead, it will be a blow to households, many of which are struggling with the cost of living. People have engaged with the deposit...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know whether the issue of support for Mrs. von der Leyen to have another term of office leading the European Commission came up at the Taoiseach's Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination. The Taoiseach might advise us whether it did. I find it absolutely extraordinary that a Government that professes to be serious about Palestinian rights would weigh in behind von der Leyen...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Taoiseach raise the issue of Israel with her?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: What did she say?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Her position has been made pretty clear.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It also requires a change of leadership in the European Commission.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [28183/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The EU directive on adequate minimum wages is a significant opportunity to improve workers' rights and increase productivity in the Irish economy. The success of the directive relies on the domestic legislation underpinning it and the plan on collective bargaining that will be presented to European Commission as part of its transposition. The need for collective bargaining to be protected...