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

Mary Lou McDonald: You should have set out your rationale.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolute waffle.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Safety (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the funding provided to county councils for road gritting is restricted solely to regional and national roads. [2183/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Safety (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contingency measures his Department has in place to ensure that funding is provided for council municipal districts such as the Edenderry local electoral area in Offaly, which has no national roads and therefore does not meet the criteria for additional funding from central Government for essential road safety services during...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if An Garda Síochána is still using a building (details supplied) or whether it has instead been transferred to another Department, State agency or body; and if so, to provide the relevant details regarding this change of use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Weather Events (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post primary schools in north Offaly that were forced to close during the severe cold weather the country experienced from 6 to 10 January 2025, in tabular form. [2186/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Local Authorities (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to Offaly County Council on an annual basis from 2020 to date, in tabular form. [2183/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Weather Events (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedures in place for county councils to apply for additional funding during severe weather; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2185/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the supplementary welfare allowance can be used to replace gas boilers for those who do not have the means to pay to replace them on their own (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2454/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The coalition the Taoiseach leads was put together on the back of a grubby deal with Deputy Michael Lowry and his group of Independents. Since then, he and Simon Harris, the Tánaiste, have been found out for misleading the public on housing delivery figures during the election campaign. Now, he announces he will remove rent pressure zones in order to encourage private investment in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me assure the Taoiseach that I pay the very closest attention to the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of people who live in rental properties. I pay particular attention to those who are literally ripped off month in and month out and really struggle to meet their rent. I pay more attention again to those who have lost their homes because they simply could not make the rent or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nowhere in his pronouncements has there been any concern for renters-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----or control of rent. The Government ought to cut rents and freeze them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It will not do that. Instead it proposes to remove the single protection renters are currently afforded.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: On a point of order-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: On a point of order.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is actually. The Taoiseach took advantage, perhaps, of the Ceann Comhairle not following.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: He accused me. He called me a liar.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá mé ag insint na fírinne. He said it trí Ghaeilge and I would like him to remove it from the record.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Níl aon deacracht ann.