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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional gardaí that have been assigned to date in 2017 to the north inner city of Dublin. [49360/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (21 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles assigned to each Garda station in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [49359/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (21 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Fitzgibbon Street Garda station will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49361/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the new Garda special crime task force has been established as recommended by the Mulvey report recommendations for the north-east inner city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49362/17]

Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fact that the Taoiseach says now that he has ordered a trawl of documentation and that he is revisiting the Toland report in respect of the dysfunctionality of the Department of Justice and Equality simply underscores yet again the seriousness of this matter and the fact that it is not an isolated incident. There are now serious questions over the judgment, competence and credibility of...

Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have here, courtesy of the Labour Party, which very generously has given me this text, the Official Report of-----

Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----the Dáil and it reflects the fact that the Taoiseach is either misleading the Dáil again or he is being more than disingenuous. He has defined on the floor of the House "no prior knowledge" very specifically as after the fact of the cross-examination. He is now saying the Tánaiste knew nothing about this until the commission was under way. That was not the Taoiseach's...

Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach said it twice - last Tuesday and last Wednesday. He needs to clarify it now. I do not think he should dig an even deeper hole or deepen this controversy by continuing to mislead the Dáil. The Tánaiste knew the nature of the legal strategy. Furthermore, she knew that information prior to the cross-examination of Maurice McCabe and she chose not to do anything about...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government contains a commitment to update the national eye care plan. The Taoiseach made some reference to it earlier this morning. Last night's "Prime Time Investigates - Public vs. Private: The Battle for Care", highlighted very serious issues and discrepancies regarding the time worked in public hospitals by a small number of consultants. I listened to 90 year old...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree. We met yesterday the British Prime Minister, Ms Theresa May. We raised with her a range of matters in respect of the current efforts to restore the political institutions. One matter in particular that we raised with her, and that I want to raise with the Taoiseach this afternoon, is the decision the British Government has taken to include a statute of limitations or a proposal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach referred in some detail to the Brexit negotiations and the relationship between the Government and the government in London. He made the not unreasonable observation that he awaits a proposal from the British Government in respect of the Border issue on the island. I draw his attention to the utterly shambolic state of play in the British Government in respect of putting...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have now spent over a week discussing this email, the e-mail which outlined the very malicious strategy designed by former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan and her legal team to destroy the reputation and the life of Sergeant Maurice McCabe. It seems to me that there was a conspiracy to ruin this honourable man and that members of An Garda Síochána and the...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The email in question was sent to an official at the Department of Justice and Equality from somebody within An Garda Síochána. That email was then sent on to the Tánaiste. It strikes me as very strange that this email and the telephone conversation happened at all. It is very strange that the people concerned would be sharing information on a legal strategy and then sharing...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why did she sit idly by as the plan to discredit Sergeant McCabe unfolded? She said that she could not remember the email but I do not accept that because the political controversy surrounding Maurice McCabe had already led to the resignation of a Minister for Justice and Equality and a Garda Commissioner. It centred on allegations against Sergeant McCabe of which the Tánaiste was...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, it was worse than that because what the Tánaiste did do was continue to express unwavering confidence in the then Garda Commissioner O'Sullivan after the fact. She also continued to parrot this line that the whistleblower would enjoy protection from the Government. It was initially claimed by An Taoiseach, presumably after discussions with her, that the Tánaiste had no...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It goes to the heart of her integrity and that of her Government and it will not stand. Can the Tánaiste afford us clarity now and can she give an account for her failures?

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask why emails were not found. I asked why the Tánaiste did not act.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is still not giving answers. She is sticking to her script and I for one-----

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----am not taken in for a moment by the bluster and the long enunciation of a list of her virtues in office.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fact is that when it counted, when this email arrived in her in-box and when she became aware of a malicious strategy to malign this man on the basis of charges that had been dismissed and disproved, she failed to act.