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

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to be responsible and act now to keep his word and end this dispute.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son Sinn Féin ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann agus cairde an iar-Theachta, Jackie Healy-Rae a fuair bás i mí na Nollag 2014. On my own behalf and on behalf of Sinn Féin I extend our sincere sympathies to the family and friends of former Teachta Jackie Healy-Rae, who passed away in December 2014. As the Ceann...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recently published programme for Government progress report. [26757/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit. [26758/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [25303/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is making a very lame attempt to defend the indefensible, which is the Mercosur agreement. It should be remembered that Fianna Fáil agreed the mandate for negotiations for this deal back in 1999.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister will be aware that Sinn Féin has spent the past five years calling on the Minister and Fine Gael to withdraw support for this mandate. Now we have this deal-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sorry to offend by putting the facts of this matter on the record. Yet, here we find ourselves faced with this deal. The Taoiseach's position is that if it is good for Ireland, we will support it. That is the stated position of the Government. All of the main farming organisations and stakeholders across the island oppose the deal. They do not need any long-winded analysis or any fig...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that the Government would be prepared to sign up to a deal with Brazil, whose president has committed to destroying the Amazon and the indigenous communities who live there, in order to increase the profits of a few millionaire beef exporters, and that the Government would move to make it easier for Brazilian and Argentinian beef to come into the European Union, and for German car...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is right to acknowledge that we have opposed this deal and negotiation from the get-go, from as far back as 1999 when Fianna Fáil agreed the mandate-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and, as I said, in the course of the last five years. We have urged Government to stand by farming families and rural Ireland and, also, to stand by that which is sustainable and sensible and things that protect our planet rather than underscoring wholesale vandalism in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. It is laughable to hear the Minister try to explain away the destruction of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is a matter of common sense. I again call on the Minister-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: He has hidden behind legal interpretations of the trade deal in terms of whether it is mixed or not. I have to insist that, as the elected representatives of the Irish people, we have our say on this matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have to insist that a Government-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that has failed Irish farming families and rural Ireland, at a minimum, allows us, the people's elected representatives in this House, the opportunity to defend their interests where it will not to do so.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is rubbish.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, but with greater brevity. In addition to more time, it would be better if the Minister presented himself to answer questions.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not sufficient simply for the Minister to skate over this matter with a statement at the beginning and a statement from the Government at the end. This is a very serious issue. We need the Minister to answer questions as well as providing additional time for the discussion.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: At the risk of annoying you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I think the better use of the hour would be to have questions and answers rather than statements in the time allotted to us on Wednesday. I think it is important that the Minister comes in and is initially held to account and subjected to questions.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Statements is one thing, but questioning the Minister------