Results 21,261-21,280 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I extend a céad míle fáilte to Aran and Sophie Byrne who are recently married. They are here with their family - love's young dream in the Dáil. I also welcome the Moylagh Historical Society from the royal county. Fáilte romhaibh ar fad. The Taoiseach repeatedly tells us that fixing housing is his number one priority so people have waited for the big initiative...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What the Taoiseach is about is screwing renters.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: He is about doing it very brazenly and then he wants to try to distract from that fact. He should go ahead and extend the 2% cap across the State. He should do that. We will support him in doing it. I do not think anyone will object to that. However, that does not disguise the actual intent and the effect, in the here and now and in the long term, of what he is about to do. The rent...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, they will.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is the import of the Government's proposal. The disappointing thing is everybody knows rents are extortionate at this point. The job of a responsible Government is to ensure a cut in rents and to ban rent increases.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Instead, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael want to facilitate the jacking up of rents. It is disgraceful.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: He has been asked three times.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Your press release, Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The press release. You are not chairing a committee.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Tens of thousands every year. Watch that now. Watch that bubble.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do you want to keep people in their homes?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is this? This is extraordinary.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: More than 100,000 children are now living in consistent poverty. That number has jumped, astonishingly, by more than 45,000 in just 12 months. These were the alarming figures reported by the Children’s Rights Alliance this morning. This is particularly shocking at a time when the economy is performing well and public finances are very, very strong. It comes at a time when the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: For sanctions.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why is the Central Bank still accommodating warmongering?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true.