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Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and any attempt to railroad us will be met head on without fear or hesitation. We will stand our ground and we will always stand up for those who depend on us to fight their corner. The people of Ireland have worked hard and the State now has unprecedented wealth and resources: everything needed to build a fair and equal society. The State has never been richer but so many of our...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Our work and our ambition for building a better, fair, equal and united Ireland has never been more important. We stick to that task with real belief, with renewed hope and refreshed determination. It is in that spirit that I accept this nomination.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (23 Jan 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am having a serious episode of déjà vu.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (23 Jan 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: All of a sudden, I am transported back to 2020. The Tánaiste spoke of a balanced programme. I have to say what is manifest and obvious: you have got the gender balance wrong. You are very male. Some of you are pale but you are very, very male. In politics in a representative democracy, we should strive to reflect and mirror the communities we represent, inasmuch as we can. I have...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (23 Jan 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to set back the goal of ceasing trading with companies that profit from the dispossession, the apartheid and the brutal dehumanisation of the Palestinian people. I regard this as a stunning betrayal. Humanitarian aid is necessary and reconstruction is absolutely vital, but we need to be clear that on their own these are not enough.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (23 Jan 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Israel must be held to account. There have to be consequences for the Netanyahu regime and its genocidal actions. I feel certain there will be a united call from these benches, the Opposition benches, and from the Irish public that this Government should do the right thing by Palestine. I have said before that elections are where Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael make their promises and it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ten minutes?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: You want ten minutes of me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am more than happy to speak for ten minutes; I have a lot to say. Forty thousand is the number of new homes the Taoiseach and Simon Harris said they would build last year. It is a number that was repeated again and again throughout 2024, going into overdrive in the lead-up to last November’s general election. Let me recall for the Taoiseach some of his bluster. On social media...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: For the first time, the Taoiseach and, by extension, the Government have openly accepted that they have missed their targets. I suppose that is progress of some sort. The fact remains that the Taoiseach deliberately and repeatedly used a figure of 40,000 new homes for 2024 when he has to have known that this was not going to be delivered. He cites Deutsche Bank but he knows that by the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Oh wow.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Contrary to the Taoiseach's assertion, the actual priority for this new cobbled-together grubby-deal Government is actually jobs for the boys, and for the few girls who might be lucky enough to make an appearance. Its desire to divvy out the spoils of government is unparalleled in the history of this House. The Order of Business proposes more positions, more...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: ESB Group is enormously profitable. It receives significant funding from the taxpayer by way of the public service obligation levy. Yesterday, the CEO of the ESB stated that the cost of repairing damage to the network caused by the recent storm would be borne by customers in their bills. We have previously discussed the hardship that has been wrought by the storm, where so many of the...

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: If you walk down Henry Street in Dublin, just outside Dunnes Stores you will find two plaques. The plaques are inscribed with the names of 11 courageous Dunnes Stores workers who went on strike in 1984 and took to the picket lines in protest against the company's handling of goods from apartheid South Africa. For more than two and a half years, Mary Manning and her colleagues sustained...

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The assertion by US President Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, that the dispossessed, impoverished and brutalised refugee population of Gaza should be permanently exiled to facilitate Israeli occupation and those wishing to construct a dystopian riviera is astounding in its cruelty and demonstrates utter disregard for human rights and international law. The only way to stop Israel...

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: What are they?

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Explain them.

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: We can tut-tut if we want to.