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Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — endometriosis is a serious, chronic inflammatory disease that affects the entire body, and it is characterised by severe pelvic pain, infertility, internal scarring (fibrosis), heavy and painful menstruation, and can cause irreversible damage to multiple organs; — the disease primarily affects organs within the pelvic...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and it is seen by all of us here as exactly what it is. Women who have had access to the correct treatment have told us what it means. They say they feel reborn, that they got their lives back, that they shared the joy of being part of the lives of their children and their families again, that they could work again, that they could breathe easy again. That is what is at stake. That...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a speech. It is bullet points.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has not explained why she is opposing our motion. Why is she opposing our motion?

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Please do.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is failing.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Doctors send them away.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is gaslighting us.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: To which clinical decisions specifically is the Minister referring?

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: To what clinical decisions is the Minister referring? The Ceann Comhairle gave her extra speaking time.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tell us which clinical decision the Minister is talking about, Robert, please. I am all ears.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, they have not.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister of State cannot do that. He should not do that.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is outrageous.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am the only person respecting the visitors.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Minister of State watching the reaction in the Gallery? The visitors know, as I do, that what he said is wrong.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Dáil prepares to rise now for the summer, the thing on everybody's mind is runaway prices and the sky-high cost of living. Working households really struggle now to make ends meet and they hear from the Taoiseach time and again as he digs in and refuses to include a cost-of-living package in October's budget. Today, a report published by the Irish League of Credit Unions reveals...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Sorry, are you the guy who was giving bankers back their bonuses?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Níl cliú ag an Taoiseach agus níl suim aige ach an oiread sa bhrú atá ar theaghlaigh. The Taoiseach's answer demonstrates again that he could not care less. It is spin and rhetoric from the Government again. I raised this with the Taoiseach yesterday, I raised it today and I will raise it every single day I have to for as long as working people and families are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----because they have a Government that cares more about the high rollers, big bankers and squadrons of super junior Ministers than it does about struggling households. I cited real-life examples-----