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

Mary Lou McDonald: Gan dabht, tá na gaolta sin uilig an-tábhachtach ar fad. That is why I have raised the question with the Taoiseach. I am not in the least bit complacent. I am deeply concerned about the international order at this time and Ireland's place within it. Peace is not achieved by investing in and financing war. Every rule in the book is being set aside to enable Europe to invest...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: What about Palestine and Gaza?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Figures were released this morning to our justice spokesperson, Deputy Carthy, that make for very shocking reading. They reveal that suspects in 40,348 crimes carried out in 2024 were out on bail. This is an issue we have raised repeatedly with the Government, and I am raising it again this morning. The 2024 figure represented an increase of 5,000 on the figure for 2022. Astonishingly,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The figures are shocking.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The figures do not tell that story.

International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tugann Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan deis dúinn go léir machnamh a dhéanamh ar an am atá caite agus tabhairt faoin todhchaí go cróga. Déanann muid ceiliúradh ar na glúnta máithreacha, iníonacha agus deirfiúracha ar diúltaíodh fios a bheith acu agus a tháinig timpeall ar dhúshlán doshéanta le...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: During the general election campaign, the Taoiseach, along with the Tánaiste, Simon Harris, and his Ministers, repeatedly claimed that 40,000 homes would be delivered in 2024. This was a ploy to fool people into believing that the Government had made real progress on housing. Of course, we all knew it was bull. We now know that, in fact, 30,330 homes were delivered in 2024. That is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is spoofing. The Department of Finance analysed all the available data which the Taoiseach cited and more. The Department told the Taoiseach's colleague, the Minister, Jack Chambers, that 40,000 homes in 2024 was not happening. We have the documentation to reflect that fact. The Minister knew and the Government knew - I assume the Taoiseach knew - yet the Government spun the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to reflect on that and on the fact that his sniggering-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----caused real hurt. The Taoiseach should genuinely reflect on that fact. Perhaps he has not. I now ask him to do so and accept also that he misled people in the general election campaign.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: You are.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, if he will.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, you are spoofing.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are now four months on from the general election and we have only ten more sitting days until the Easter recess. The legislative priority of the Government so far was to get more money for junior Ministers. We have no committees established. The Government has sat on that matter. It has proven itself to be truly a do-nothing Government. The Dáil is effectively in cold storage....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask that the Government desists from this course of action, respects the role we have, as the Opposition, allows us to get on with our work and, dare I suggest it, you get on with yours.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am happy to clarify that in fact I called the Deputies underlings and not lackies, just for the record.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I called them underlings not lackies.