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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the leader of the UK Labour Party, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn. [25073/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I very much welcome the fact that the Taoiseach had this exchange with Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour Party. It is important that such contact would continue because we need to have ongoing open communication with all of our allies, with every person across political persuasions who understand the real impact Brexit will have on Ireland and the potentially disastrous impact...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report for 2018 of his Department will be published. [25301/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach set out as one of the pillars of his strategy the idea of a socially inclusive Ireland in which, as he put it, no one is left behind. His Department's annual report mentions the Government's work on housing in numerous sections but the portrayal of this Government's record in that area is wildly at variance with the reality and the facts on the ground. I was perplexed to read...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach mentioned the Australian Prime Minister's Irish ancestry. Of course, there are many Irish people living down under - some voluntarily. They are on the adventure of their lives. Some may come home; some may not. Others, of course, were forced down under in the course of the recession, when the economy went bust and when many people literally lost their shirt. There are many...

Pre-European Council: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will be sharing time with Deputy Cullinane.

Pre-European Council: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Táim buíoch as an deis labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo um thráthnóna. I understand why the focus might fall on the personalities and the contest as to who might get what top job for the next session of the European Parliament and Commission, but what matters more than that is the nature of the reflection and whether or not there is a real understanding...

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the status of Bills under preparation in his Department. [25074/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [26554/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Gender Balance (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 96. To ask the Taoiseach the plans of the CSO to undertake a gendered analysis of full employment to establish the gap between male and female participation in the workforce. [26687/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 616. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated annual cost of extending the free travel age for children on public transport to 18 years for Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann, Luas and Iarnród Éireann services. [26075/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 690. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding provided to domestic and gender-based violence organisations in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by organisation in tabular form. [26635/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The truth does hurt. The truth and hurt this afternoon are that 10,000 support staff in the health service are on strike at 38 hospitals and facilities across the State. They are engaged in industrial action because of the failures of the Government. This is a mess entirely of its making and that truth, I hope, rings home at some level with the Taoiseach. I took the opportunity this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The workers who are out on strike today do not believe that the Taoiseach fully appreciates or even acknowledges the important work they carry out. It might do him no harm to visit a picket line; it might not to him any harm at all to talk to people and hear what they have to say. If he did, they would tell him that they feel very let down. These are low-paid workers and caterers and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no need for the Labour Court. This is a ball of smoke - an absolute diversion by the Taoiseach. It is utterly disingenuous. There is no matter of dispute here, save that the Government will not keep its word.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government will not pay what is due to these workers on the back of a job evaluation scheme that was agreed between the parties.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let us not play games. The only thing the Taoiseach is doing by offering up the diversion of the Labour Court is prolonging the strike.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is prolonging a messy strike that is of his making because he has broken his word. For as long as he refuses to honour his agreements-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----we will have industrial action. I appeal to the Taoiseach to be reasonable.